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Interior paid $156 million for employees not to work (opens the original)
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The Department of the Interior spent more than $150 million on administrative leave for employees working in the secretary’s office last year. New records obtained by POLITICO shed light on the cost of the “deferred resignation” program and other initiatives by President Donald Trump to downsize the federal workforce at the department. When Trump swept into office in 2025, his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, led by tech mogul Elon Musk, sought to use Silicon Valley-style tactics t
EPA watchdog signs up with anti-fraud team (opens the original)
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EPA’s internal watchdog is partnering with a collective of government investigators to fight fraud. EPA’s Office of Inspector General announced Thursday that it has joined the Trade Fraud Task Force. The group, launched by the Justice and Homeland Security departments, targets trade law breaches, such as evading tariffs and mislabeling goods. It also looks at health and safety violations. Earlier this year, the White House launched its fraud initiative, which has gone after fraudulent Medicaid p
Trump ally offered Zeldin dirt on EPA staff (opens the original)
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The America First Policy Institute, a think tank aligned with Donald Trump, threatened to expose EPA employees critical of the president, internal agency records show. Last year, a policy analyst with the organization offered to share certain EPA staffers’ names and positions with Administrator Lee Zeldin, an email obtained by POLITICO reveals. The group discovered the employees as part of a yearslong project to unmask the career civil service that conservatives credit with frustrating the polic
Data centers top agenda for EPA’s local government council (opens the original)
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EPA is turning to local governments as the Trump administration pushes to build data centers required to win the global race for artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, the agency named 22 state and municipal officials as members of its Local Government Advisory Committee, which included 13 new members and nine returning members. On the panel’s agenda for its public meeting in September is discussion about what local governments face when siting and developing data centers in line with the enviro
EPA to trim environmental justice rules (opens the original)
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EPA plans to take down another pillar offering aid to underserved communities struggling with pollution, a longtime target of the Trump administration. The agency on Tuesday sent a rule for review to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs that would rescind parts of EPA’s nondiscrimination regulations, according to an online notice. The rollback would align the agency with an executive order President Donald Trump signed last year to cut the use of “disparate impacts” — w
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