EPA to Reopen D.C. Office Next Week, Give Workers Return Option

The EPA is reopening its Washington headquarters on June 23, according to an internal email sent Thursday night.

Employees will “have the option to return to the office,” wrote Donna Vizian, the Environmental Protection Agency’s principal deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Mission Support.

The reopening also applies to the EPA’s satellite office in Arlington, Va., Vizian wrote in the email, which was obtained by Bloomberg Law.

The move puts the agency’s largest workplace into the first stage of President Donald Trump’s three-phased coronavirus reopening plan. That phase will ...