EPA Union Asks Agency for Clarity on Potential Cuts to Staff

The EPA’s biggest union on Tuesday formally asked the agency to share its plans about agency sub-offices and staff that leadership could eliminate, consolidate, or expand as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government.

The American Federation of Government Employees sent an information request to Robert Coomber, the Environmental Protection Agency’s senior labor adviser.

The union asked the agency to identify how many full-time employees have been eliminated, which job positions will be excluded from large-scale layoffs, and the agency’s timetable for implementing the reorganization plan laid out in a Feb. 26 memo ...