The expected passage of the Inflation Reduction Act is going to strain an EPA workforce that’s already under pressure to carry out the mandates in last November’s infrastructure bill, observers said Monday.
The additional workload raises questions about the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to cope without quickly bringing on many more employees, according to Stan Meiburg, a former EPA acting deputy administrator.
“All of this activity creates more demands on an agency that has been struggling to get enough budget to carry out its prior functions even before this happened,” said Meiburg, now executive director at Wake Forest University’s Center ...
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