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Tag Archives: Environmental Protection Agency
Bottom’s Up to Clean Drinking Water!
In honor of World Water Day, today’s WatchBlog takes a look at our recent work on efforts to keep drinking water free of lead and other contaminants in homes, businesses, and military installations.
Lead in Drinking Water
It’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, and today’s WatchBlog explores our recent report and video on lead in drinking water and federal efforts to help ensure drinking water is safe from lead. Our recent video explains how lead can enter drinking … Continue reading
The Costs and Benefits of Federal Telework (podcast)
It used to be that if you weren’t in the office, you couldn’t get work done. Now, at least 1 million federal employees are eligible to telework. But what are the costs and benefits to federal agencies of this flexible … Continue reading
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August 4, 2016
Tagged CHCO, Chief Human Capital Officers, Department of Transportation, DOT, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, federal telework, feds, General Services Administration, GSA, Merit Systems Protection Board, MSPB, Office of Personnel Management, OPM, telework, United States Department of Agriculture, usda, Yvonne Jones
Genetically Engineered Crops (podcast)
Genetically engineered crops, while controversial in some circles, have become commonplace in commercial agriculture. USDA and industry groups estimate that 90% of major commercial crops such as corn and soybeans are genetically engineered varieties. But as demand for organic and … Continue reading
Drinking Water and Fracking (podcast)
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has helped increase domestic oil and gas production. But fracking, along with other drilling methods, produces wastewater, which can contain various chemicals and metals, among other things. Listen to Alfredo Gomez, a director in our Natural … Continue reading
Assessing Toxic Chemicals at Home and Abroad (podcast)
It’s the Environmental Protection Agency’s job to safeguard public health and the environment. This includes assessing the risks of chemicals—some of which are toxic—in water, land, and air. Yet problems have kept the EPA’s work on our High Risk List. We … Continue reading
Chemical Safety One Year After Explosion in West, TX
Last year, a fire set off a tragic explosion at a fertilizer storage and distribution facility in West, Texas. The explosion killed and injured many people and severely damaged nearby houses and other buildings, including schools. While the investigation that … Continue reading
Impacts of Fiscal Year 2013 Sequestration
On March 1st, 2013, the president ordered an across-the-board reduction in federal agency budgets. This reduction, more commonly known as sequestration, had a wide range of effects on agency operations and services to the public. The infographic below outlines some of our key findings … Continue reading
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March 6, 2014
Tagged agencies, budget, Congress, Defense Department, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, DOL, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, federal budget, fiscal, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Justice Department, Labor, personnel, reductions, sequester, sequestration, services, workforce
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GAO’s Natural Resources and Environment Mission Team
GAO’s workforce is organized largely by subject area, with most employees working in 1 of 14 mission teams. Today we’ll be putting the spotlight on the Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) team, which works on issues such as land and … Continue reading
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February 25, 2014
Tagged about GAO, aerial firefighting, agriculture, aviation, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, DOE, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, federal lands, federal waters, firefighting, food safety, forest service, interior, Interior Department, land management, mission team, NRE, nuclear security, oil and gas, poultry slaughter, safe drinking water act, science, usda, USFS, wildland
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