Bloomberg Law
Jan. 16, 2019, 12:17 PM UTCUpdated: Jan. 17, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

Lost Money, Idle Students, Stalled Studies as EPA Shut (Corrected)

Pat Rizzuto
Pat Rizzuto
Reporter

People expect to get something of value when they spend their money. But when taxpayers’ income has been spent on research underway at a shuttered agency like EPA, it’s like pouring money down a drain, according to retired agency scientists.

The EPA conducts hundreds of different air pollution, water quality, ecological, chemical toxicity, and other studies that had to be put on hold when the agency shut down.

It could take up to six months to get some of those studies restarted once the EPA reopens, said Dan Costa, who retired from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research ...

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