EPA targets Energy Star program
According to a source, staffers were told at a meeting Monday that Energy Star was being eliminated, as is the Climate Protection Partnerships division that houses it.
Staffers were also told that the EPA was cutting its Climate Change division, which includes the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. This program requires major polluters to report their planet-warming emissions.
The Hill also viewed images of slides from a meeting with staffers that listed both the Climate Protection Partnership division and the Climate Change division as 'organization and programs eliminated.'
The slides noted that staff 'may be reassigned to other positions.'
The plans were first reported by CNN.
In a statement to The Hill, the EPA noted that it had announced a broad reorganization Friday.
'With this action, EPA is delivering organizational improvements to the personnel structure that will directly benefit the American people and better advance the agency's core mission, while Powering the Great American Comeback,' said an agency spokesperson in an email.
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