Union Says EPA Changed COVID-19 Criteria For Quicker Office Reopening

EPA’s largest employee union is raising concerns that changes the agency quietly made to the metrics it uses to determine when to reopen offices in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic will make it easier to force workers back to their offices even if virus infections are spiking in those locations. The agency added a new “subset” to the second of three criteria it uses to determine whether a region may move from its current phase of reopening to the...