Environmental Protection Agency

The Clean Air Act requires delegated agencies to work with the EPA to reduce air pollution from stationary sources. From at least 2006, the EPA did not ensure that two large, delegated agencies, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or the TCEQ, and California's South Coast Air Quality...

Why We Did This Report The Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, Pub. L. 112-194, and Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-123, Appendix B, A Risk Management Framework for Government Charge Card Programs, directs each head of an executive agency with more than $10 million in...

This update highlights oversight activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General from April 1 to June 30, 2024.

Why We Did This Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General performed this audit pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act. The Act requires the EPA to prepare and the OIG to audit the accompanying financial statements of the EPA’s...

Why We Did This Report The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act, requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General to perform an annual audit of the financial statements for the Pesticides Reregistration and...

The Office of Investigations initiated an investigation in June 2021 based on concerns from the EPA Office of Wastewater Management that Grandview, Washington, acquired construction materials for a CWSRF project that may have been falsely advertised on a Canadian manufacturing company’s website as...

Why We Did This ReportWhile conducting an evaluation of American Creosote Works Inc. in Pensacola, Florida, to determine whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implements and oversees institutional controls, we noted the proximity of the Escambia Wood Treating Company, another...

Why We Did This ReportThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General initiated this audit based on a request from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The objective of the audit is to assess the EPA’s preparation to implement the public...

Why We Did This ReportThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this evaluation to determine the financial capacity of the New Mexico Environment Department to manage its Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund...

Why We Did This ReportWe are alerting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the need to ensure that mobile devices for separating employees are properly preserved and timely accessible to the Office of Inspector General to prevent the loss of evidence and other relevant records. Summary The...