U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:04:00 1 History
00:14:32 2 Organization
00:15:04 2.1 Offices
00:18:05 2.2 Regions
00:20:42 3 Related legislation
00:22:13 4 Programs
00:22:51 4.1 EPA Safer Choice
00:23:43 4.2 Safer Detergents Stewardship Initiative
00:24:56 4.3 Energy Star
00:26:25 4.4 Smart Growth
00:27:08 4.5 Pesticides
00:27:55 4.6 The Land Disposal Restrictions Program
00:29:03 4.7 Superfund
00:31:12 4.8 Brownfields Program
00:32:15 4.9 Fuel Economy
00:35:23 4.10 Oil spill prevention program
00:36:48 4.11 Toxics Release Inventory
00:37:48 4.12 WaterSense
00:38:36 4.13 Underground Storage Tanks Program
00:40:26 4.14 Drinking Water
00:42:20 4.15 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
00:43:52 4.16 RCRA Corrective Action
00:45:03 4.17 Radiation Protection
00:46:13 4.18 Tools for Schools
00:46:59 4.19 Environmental education
00:47:30 4.20 Clean School Bus USA
00:48:13 4.21 Green Chemistry Program
00:48:47 4.22 Section 404 Program
00:49:30 4.23 State Revolving Loan Fund Program
00:50:22 4.24 Beach Program
00:51:16 4.25 Geographic Programs
00:51:42 4.26 Construction Grants Program (Past)
00:52:26 4.27 33/50 Program (Past)
00:53:20 4.28 2010/2015 PFOA Stewardship Program (Past)
00:53:56 5 Chemical Data Reporting
00:55:09 6 Environmental Justice
00:56:50 6.1 Barriers to enforcing environmental justice
00:59:30 7 Research vessel, 2004–2013
01:00:45 8 Advance identification
01:01:32 9 Freedom of Information Act processing performance
01:02:16 10 Controversies (1983–present)
01:02:28 10.1 Fiscal mismanagement, 1983
01:05:16 10.2 TSCA and confidential business information, 1994 (or earlier)–present
01:06:33 10.3 Political pressure and scientific integrity, 2001–present
01:09:54 10.4 Fuel economy, 2005–2010
01:12:13 10.5 Mercury emissions, 2005
01:14:25 10.6 Climate change, 2007–2017
01:16:52 10.7 Gold King Mine waste water spill, 2015
01:17:28 10.8 Collusion with Monsanto chemical company
01:19:27 10.9 Chief Scott Pruitt, 2017
01:20:41 11 See also
01:21:39 12 Further reading



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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970 and it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. The agency is led by its Administrator, who is appointed by the President and approved by Congress. The current Administrator is former Deputy Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler, who had been acting administrator since July 2018. The EPA is not a Cabinet department, but the Administrator is normally given cabinet rank.
The EPA has its headquarters in Washington, D.C., regional offices for each of the agency's ten regions, and 27 laboratories. The agency conducts environmental assessment, research, and education. It has the responsibility of maintaining and enforcing national standards under a variety of environmental laws, in consultation with state, tribal, and local governments. It delegates some permitting, monitoring, and enforcement responsibility to U.S. states and the federally recognized tribes. EPA enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures. The agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.
In 2018, the agency had 14,172 full-time employees. More than half of EPA's employees are engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists; other employees include legal, public affairs, financial, and information technologists. 
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