EPA’s internal watchdog is warning the agency about how reorganizational churn under the Trump administration may endanger its mission of environmental protection.
EPA’s Office of Inspector General released a report Thursday outlining six “management challenges” for the agency to consider this fiscal year. One of the issues identified was keeping up “Mission Efficiency and Effectiveness” as EPA undergoes “Organizational Change.”
“Institutional knowledge develops over time, making it difficult to replace once it is lost,” said the report. “Without deliberate strategies to capture, identify gaps in, and rebuild institutional knowledge, the EPA faces potential and widespread capability challenges.”
Thousands of employees have left the agency, which has been dramatically reshaped since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House last year.
