Environmental Protection Agency OIG

Increased power supply demands could delay electric school bus deployment.

The EPA must execute processes with controls to enforce its stewardship of laptops and to safeguard against activities that could prevent it from protecting its assets from loss, theft, and mismanagement.

This report summarizes Office of Inspector General work and accomplishments from April 1 through September 30, 2023.

This report summarizes what the inspector general considers to be “the most serious management and performance challenges facing the agency” and briefly assesses the Agency’s progress in addressing those challenges.

We found the EPA’s financial statements to be fairly presented and free of material misstatement.

Without enforcing established access control requirements, the EPA puts the chemical data, which IRIS users rely upon to inform scientifically sound environmental regulations and policies, at risk of unauthorized changes.

Attention to U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) management challenges could result in stronger results and protection for the public, and increased confidence in management integrity and accountability.

Monitoring of quality controls is an ongoing, periodic assessment of work needed to ensure compliance with the OIG’s system of quality control.

Ineffective physical and environmental protection controls place CSB’s investigative data at risk of theft, loss or damage.