The EPA has paused its plans toward reopening its Washington, D.C., headquarters, according to an internal email sent Thursday afternoon.
The email, obtained by Bloomberg Law, comes as a win for the guild representing many Environmental Protection Agency employees, which has resisted the agency’s efforts to bring them back to the office.
During a review of 14-day trend data for the national capital region, EPA experts “determined that the gating criteria to enter Phase 2 were not met,” wrote Donna Vizian, the EPA’s principal deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Mission Support, referring to President Donald Trump’s ...