Staff at the Environmental Protection Agency (EP) headquarters in Washington, D.C. are working under what some may consider unbearable temperatures for the third week in a row. Air conditioning system failures in the building have pushed office temperatures well above 80 degrees, staff told CBS News.
The EPA, like other federal bodies, has been on the Trump administration‘s misdirected chopping block, with efforts to cut costs originally driven by Elon Musk’s DOGE department, the nongovernmental task force created without Congressional approval.
The organization has a mission to “protect human health and the environment,” according to its website, and currently has just over 14,000 staff. But in May, it revealed plans to cut staffing to 1980s levels and dissolve its research and development office as part of a dramatic overhaul. According to NPR, the lowest number of EPA workers in the 1980s was around 11,000 people.
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