In the News

 Stan Meiburg, former Acting Administrator, was quoted in WFDD. Last month, a massive fire erupted at the Omnisource recycling plant in Kernersville, sending towering plumes of black smoke into the sky and drawing attention from as far away as Virginia.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in Wisconsin Public Radio. Budget would make nearly $2.5B in cuts to state revolving loan funds.

Michelle Roos was quoted in Chemical and Engineering News. Office of Research and Development scientists get 1 week to apply for a new job in the agency or accept early retirement.

Margo Oge, former Director, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, was quoted in The New York Times. Some said they worried that California’s planned ban on gas-powered vehicles would raise the price of cars. Another cited “intense and misleading lobbying” by the oil industry.

Joe Goffman, former Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, was quoted in Politico Pro. The agency didn’t offer an alternative in its proposed repeal of rules that limit planet-warming pollution.

Joe Goffman, former Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, was quoted in Politico Pro. The agency plans to eliminate offices that track planet-warming emissions and regulate air pollution.

Dennis McLerran, former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 10, co-wrote an op-ed for The Herald. Cuts to agencies and their staffs sidestep Congress’ authority and endanger past protection work.

Michelle Roos was quoted in Bloomberg Law. The EPA’s budget would be cut by more than half under President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, released Friday.

EPN was mentioned in the Santa Barbara Independent. Republicans reverse decades of bipartisan efforts to protect communities from pollution.

Stan Meiburg, former Acting Administrator, was quoted in E&E News. Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to shrink the workforce as he tries to free the agency from the statutory obligation to regulate climate pollution.

Chris Frey, former Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Research and Development, was quoted in Politico Pro. Employees in the agency’s chemicals and research offices have been told officials will share information on the shake-up and restructuring plans.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in The New Lede. Moves by the Trump administration to draw up a new regulatory framework for types of toxic chemicals has sparked suspicion among health advocates who fear the changes will protect polluters but not public health.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in Inside EPA. The Trump EPA’s just-released multi-media plan to address PFAS provides few details of what regulatory and other actions officials will eventually take, but environmentalists and others say they expect the agency to delay and roll back some of what the Biden administration crafted while also dropping some key items.

Zealan Hoover, former Senior Adviser to EPA Administrator and Director of Implementation, was quoted in The Washington Post. The agency is sending out notices of termination to 781 awardees, almost twice the number of canceled grants that had been previously reported.

Vicki Arroyo, former EPA Associate Administrator for Policy, and Joe Goffman, former Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, were quoted in Scientific American. President Trump’s EPA administrator Lee Zeldin seems to be focusing on costs to industry in an effort to dismantle the scientific justification for climate regulations

Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, and Linda Birnbaum, former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP), were quoted in The New York Times. An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide hasn’t gotten the same attention.

Jeff Alson, Former Senior Engineer and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, was quoted in The Michigan Daily. The local councils of the American Federation of Government Employees organized an Earth Day march Tuesday afternoon at the Cascade Hemophilia Consortium, chosen because of its location across from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory.

David Cash, former Regional Adminstrator, EPA Region 1, and Stan Meiburg, former Acting Deputy Administrator, were quoted in Inside EPA. Newly reported internal EPA emails are highlighting the Trump administration’s heavy focus on delaying disbursement of high-profile “green bank” grant awards with an eye to scuttling the program, observers say, even though officials are aware of the legal risks of their moves.

Avi Garbow, former EPA General Counsel, and Stan Meiburg, former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator, were quoted in Politico. The Trump administration’s effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to billions in damages, a career lawyer wrote in an internal message obtained by Politico.

Chris Frey, former Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Research and Development, was quoted in E&E News. Calling the Office of Research and Development “a unique national asset,” former agency research chiefs appealed to appropriators against downsizing.

Michelle Roos, EPN Executive Director, was quoted in Mother Jones. As Americans celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday, the nonprofit world was left anxiously wondering, “Will they or won’t they?”

EPN was mentioned in Planet Detroit. American Lung Association report finds nearly half the nation lives in areas with unhealthy air, warns EPA cuts could make the problem worse.

EPN was mentioned in Newsweek. Nearly half of the U.S. population is living with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.

Linda Birnbaum, former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and former EPA scientist, was quoted by Reuters. From her home on Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter and wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends and relatives whose lives were cut short by the disease.