A limited-search database of EPA’s approximately 16,000 employees was taken offline by the agency late last week.
The EPA directory, which included the names of unpublicized Trump administration appointees and workers with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, allowed the public to see the names, email addresses, affiliations and locations of agency employees.
POLITICO’s E&E News asked EPA last Thursday to confirm the employment status and positions of a dozen people listed by the directory as a “political appointee.”
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The press office didn’t respond, and by Friday afternoon, the search engine’s website was replaced with a 404 error and a message that “the requested resource was not found on the EPA’s Web Server.”
