"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to set aside $12 million for buyouts and early retirements in coming months, as part of an effort to begin “reshaping” the agency’s workforce under the Trump administration."

"President Trump has so far failed to provide the U.S. EPA staffers needed to execute an aggressive deregulatory game plan."

"New Jersey's working class are forgotten as federal government funds fixes for wealthier neighbors".

"Several unions representing U.S. EPA employees are asking the agency to rework ethics guidance they believe could silence their members."

"ROSEBURG, Ore. — So much timber money once flowed into this rural Oregon county that its leaders set up committees to find ways to spend it. Today, Douglas County's library system is on life support, and its sheriff's department is on track to lose funding."

"As Trump appointees take their new positions in the federal bureaucracy, a legal battle is escalating over alleged intimidation of the civil servants who make the government function."

"Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner (FERC) Colette Honorable said Friday she will leave the board when her term expires in June."

UPDATE (10:50 EDT, 4/24/17): In a reversal, the EPA website now says [34] its Open Data Service will continue. "Donald Trump is to completely shut down one of the government's most important data services." "The Environmental Protection Agency's Open Data Web service – which stores information on climate change, life cycle assessment, health impact analysis and environmental justice – is to have its funding removed and will no longer be in operation, according to people working on the plan."