EPA To 'Minimize' New Employee Hiring In Response To FY12 Budget Cuts
EPA is looking to “minimize” new employee hiring and internal staff transfers in response to cuts in the agency's fiscal year 2012 budget, according to an internal agency memo obtained by Inside EPA, just weeks ahead of President Obama's FY13 budget blueprint that sources predict could further reduce the agency's funding levels.
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DOD, DOE See Different Paths To Completing Long-Sought Waste Cleanups
The Defense Department and the Energy Department, the two federal agencies with the biggest waste cleanup liabilities, are facing two different paths as they work to complete their remedies with DOD focusing on how it handles the end stages of some cleanups while DOE is again facing budget cuts that threaten its ability to meet legal milestones.
Nuclear Industry Faces Litany Of Regulatory Uncertainties Post-Fukushima
Nuclear power supporters face another year of regulatory uncertainties in 2012, with ongoing revisions to several EPA rules and guidance documents adding to the uncertainty stemming the Fukushima power plant crisis in Japan – which may be the worst disaster in the industry's history.
EPA Minimizes Hiring
In response to fiscal year 2012 budget cuts, EPA is trying to “minimize” hiring of new employees, prompting outcry from the agency's union officials who say they were not consulted on the policy. . .
California Car Rules Include Novel PM Limits, Besting EPA's Tier III Plans
Over the objections of the auto industry, California's Air Resources Board (CARB) Jan. 27 approved landmark new auto emissions standards that include a first-time limit on particulate matter (PM) that goes beyond what is expected in EPA's increasingly controversial “Tier III” fuel and vehicle rule, which is slated for release later this Spring.
EPA Takes Steps To Resolve Civil Rights Concerns But Hurdles Remain
EPA is taking some significant steps to resolve long-running concerns about its Office of Civil Rights' (OCR) delays and handling of discrimination complaints by drafting plans to dramatically overhaul its civil rights program, but sources say EPA still faces major hurdles to addressing the concerns, including its apparent reluctance to issue a finding of discrimination.
EPA Chemical Manufacturing Air Rule Changes Fall Short Of Industry Hopes
EPA's proposal to revise its emission rules for smaller “area” source chemical manufacturers to address industry concerns falls short of resolving all of the sector's criticisms of the rule, sources say, raising questions over whether the revisions will help quell a stayed lawsuit that industry filed challenging the original version of the rule.
EPA, NAS Weigh Options For Congressionally Mandated IRIS Reviews
Draft Indiana GHG Permit Includes First-Ever Limit For Carbon Capture
Climate Change
- Draft SAB Report Outlines Alternatives To EPA's Biogenic CO2 Exemption
- RFF Touts Flexible GHG Limits For Existing Plants As EPA Hedges On Rule
- EPA Urged To Scrap Zero Emission Credit For EVs In 2017-2025 GHG Rule
Toxics
- Agencies Slated To Soon Release Study On Controversial Italian Cancer Data
- Activists Ramp Up Push Urging EPA To Quickly Release Dioxin Assessment
- EPA Advice On Nuclear Cleanup In Japan Prompts Concerns Of Precedent
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Award-Winning Coverage
Inside EPA's Doug Guarino has won a set of awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)-Washington Dateline for his series of articles that show how EPA and other government agencies still lack clear policies for how to address the risks of radiation from nuclear power plants and other sources, decades after construction of the first reactors. At the SPJ awards ceremony June 14, Doug not only won first prize in SPJ's newsletter category for which he had been nominated, but he was also selected at the judge's discretion for SPJ's Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award, which is awarded for an entry "that best exemplifies journalism aimed at protecting the public from abuses by those who would betray the public trust."
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