Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA and states can reduce the volume of trash, including plastics, in U.S. waterways by evaluating barriers to implementing the Clean Water Act and developing strategies to overcome those barriers.

The EPA should conduct new RTRs for chloroprene- and ethylene oxide-emitting source categories to address elevated individual lifetime cancer risks impacting over 464,000 people, as found in a modeling tool, and to achieve environmental justice.

EPA Did Not Conduct Agencywide Risk Assessment of CARES Act Appropriations, Increasing Risk of Fraud, Waste, Abuse, and Mismanagement.

Improved EPA oversight could ensure that state NPDES programs are protecting human health and the environment.

The EPA’s actions in the final SAFE Vehicles Rule undercut the rule’s quality.

Deficiencies in the EPA’s information technology internal controls could be used to exploit weaknesses in Agency applications and hinder the EPA’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging cyberthreats.

The EPA did not achieve its mission when senior leaders issued instructions to Region 5 that impacted the region’s ability to address ethylene oxide emissions and when the EPA delayed communicating health risks regarding ethylene oxide.

Action Development Process goals are to deliver actions that are based on sound science, promote economic efficiency, and are implementable and enforceable.

The EPA’s inspection frequency of Treatment, Storage, or Disposal Facilities with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act units closed with waste in place does not meet the EPA’s statutory requirement or policy.

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