By Melanie Sun The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending all contracts with unionized employees, a union president said on Aug. 8. Justin Chen, president of the EPA’s chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)—the United States’ largest federal union—said in a statement that the union is preparing legal action in response to […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order.
