EPA Union Urges Congress To Bolster Incentives For Agency Staff Retention

The labor union representing many EPA employees is pressing Congress to increase new hiring at the agency and bolster existing staff retention as the agency scrambles to write major climate and other rules and implement the massive infrastructure spending programs Congress created but lacks adequate resources. “EPA workers are implementing key provisions of groundbreaking regulatory efforts to protect the American people and our planet… But, EPA career employees report, and EPA management acknowledges ‘staff are being ‘worked to death’ and...