EPA Plans Immediate Early Buyouts To Reduce Staff By End Of FY17

EPA is planning to quickly initiate -- and complete by the end of fiscal year 2017 -- another round of early personnel buyouts under a new Trump administration initiative that promises expedited approval of such efforts, accelerating its workforce reduction plans even before Congress addresses the administration's request to slash the agency's budget and its personnel. In an April 17 memo to top officials across EPA, Acting Deputy Administrator Michael Flynn said the agency was complying with an April 12...