Environmental Protection Agency

Early-career federal job openings seeing ‘renewed and increased’ interest, OPM’s Shriver says

Larger impacts of OPM’s hiring changes are likely further down the road, but early signs are pointing in the right direction for early-career recruitment.

Hiring/Retention

Environmental Protection Agency Building

EPA finalizes union contract, but AFGE wary of telework’s future

Unions

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

New cyber plans for critical infrastructure could be ready early next year

Cybersecurity

How EPA is dealing with its telework-induced high-vacancy offices

Workforce

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

Image of NASA astronauts wearing solar eclipse glasses in front of NASA building in Washington, D.C.

Best Places to Work top 10 list has a few new faces, and many familiar ones

Workforce

Suspect pet product collared by EPA IG

Workforce

6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

Budget

cyber, EPA, Water Contamination Nitrates Oregon

Congress should protect science, EPA workers who dedicate careers to preserving planet

Commentary

EPA targeting higher recruitment numbers for 2024

Hiring/Retention

With critical infrastructure being targeted, Biden admin considers next steps for water sector

Cybersecurity

Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Andrew Fois, speaks with Tom Temin.

How an upcoming Supreme Court decision will affect agency rulemaking

Congress

EPA gets long to-do list from its inspector general

Climate change and what is known as environmental justice top the list of management challenges for the Environmental Protection Agency this year. No surprise…

Agency Oversight

Seven federal agencies band together to form new ‘Climate Corps’

In today’s Federal Newscast: Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh has been nominated to be the next NSA director and commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Seven federal agencies…

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements

EPA keeping its finger on the workforce’s pulse with HR analytics

Open Data/Transparency

The Environmental Protection Agency, like many other organizations, has huge amounts of data about its workforce at its disposal. But it’s not just using that data to understand the present – the agency’s also using it to plan “EPA 2.0”.