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May 5, 2022

EPA Union Demands President Biden Declare Climate Emergency, Ramp Up Federal Effort to Address Crisis

EPA employees also call on agency to invoke Defense Production Act, enact Clean Energy Standard, impose moratorium on new fossil fuel facilities WASHINGTON — The rank and file members of…

March 28, 2022 NBC Houston

NBC Houston: Workers call for reconsideration of pending relocation of Houston-based EPA lab

March 19, 2022

AFGE Council 238 Statement on Settlement of Unfair Labor Practices

During the last administration, AFGE filed a number of Unfair Labor Practices (ULPs) actions with the Federal Labor Relations Authority which were finally settled with the Agency early last week.…

March 18, 2022 HuffPost

HuffPost: EPA Union Urges Agency To Scrap Trump-Era Plan To Relocate Houston Lab

March 7, 2022

E&E News: EPA, union set May date for return to office

Under the agreement between EPA and the agency's largest union, no agency employee represented by the union will be required to return to the office prior to May 2.

March 7, 2022

AFGE Council 238 Statement on Return to Office MOU

After seven months of negotiations, the Environmental Protection Agency and AFGE Council 238, the Agency’s largest employee union, on Saturday reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on office reopening. The…

February 8, 2022

Politico PRO: Virginia Senate rejects Wheeler for Youngkin Cabinet position

BY: JORDAN WOLMAN 02/08/2022 03:22 PM EST Democrats in the Virginia state Senate stuck together to reject Andrew Wheeler’s nomination to serve in Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet. The former Trump…

January 31, 2022

AFGE EPA Council’s New Leadership Sets Priorities for 2022

Marie Owens Powell has recently been elected president for AFGE Council 238 by acclamation. Powell was the local president of AFGE Local 3631 in Philadelphia, which represents EPA workers across…

January 20, 2022

EPA Union Leaders Urge Virginia Legislature to Reject Former EPA Administrator’s Nomination to State Agency

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a letter to the Virginia General Assembly released today, The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238 called on members of the Virginia Legislature to…

January 20, 2022 HuffPo

HuffPost: EPA Union Urges Virginia Lawmakers To Reject Trump’s Former EPA Chief

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has tapped Trump lackey Andrew Wheeler for the state's top environmental post. Agency staff say it would devastate the commonwealth.