EPA administrator announces agency reorganization
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a significant reorganization for the agency the same day the Trump administration proposed billions of dollars in cuts to renewable energy, environmental and climate programs.
"EPA is creating the first-of-its-kind Office of State Air Partnerships within the Office of Air and Radiation. This office will be focused on working with, not against, state, local and tribal air permitting agencies to improve processing of State Implementation Plans and resolving air permitting concerns," Zeldin said in a video posted to YouTube.
Zeldin added that the EPA will also create a new Office of Clean Air program, make changes to its Office of Water and create an Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions.
Zeldin said the reorganization would save more than $300 million a year and that the agency's goal is to reduce staffing to match the level of Ronald Reagan's presidency.
--ABC News' Matthew Glasser







