E.P.A.
Noun
Meaning
an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
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Examples
Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
A longtime air quality specialist at the E.P.A. under both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, Mr. Regan later worked for the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group.
Asked whether career E.P.A. scientists were shut out of the process, Mr. Hewitt, the agency spokesman, said, “Our career drinking water experts are a driving force behind our more protective rulemaking.”
"For a variety of reasons, not least the cost of rail transportation, the E.P.A. has serious doubts," says the Times editorial.
If the E.P.A. will not end use of the pesticide, consumer preferences may.
Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. chief, at the White House in June.