The head of EPA’s solid waste office will be leaving his post just five months after he was confirmed.
John Busterud, the assistant administrator of the Office of Land and Emergency Management, will be departing the agency on March 7, he wrote in an email to staff viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
“The decision was not made lightly, but I must step away to focus on addressing a recently diagnosed health condition,” Busterud wrote in the email.
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EPA spokesperson Brigit Hirsch confirmed his departure and commended his role in “overseeing some of the agency’s most impactful programs.” OLEM controls Superfund remediation and brownfields grants as well as other waste management and emergency response programs.
