Just 6.6 percent of EPA employees are 'essential'

Are fewer than one of every 10 Environmental Protection Agency employees essential to its work?

Only federal employees classified as “essential” can work during a government shutdown. At EPA, that means just 6.6 percent of its workforce, according to Reuters.

Of the agency’s 16,205 employees, a mere 1,069 will work through the shutdown. That means that taxpayers employ 15,181 people at the EPA who are “non-essential.”

Because of the shutdown, the EPA will not be able to work on the rules requested by President Obama in his climate plan, but Dina Kruger, a consultant and former climate change director at the EPA, said the agency would be able to complete the rules on time. It might just have to “work a little harder” once the shutdown ends.


Film at 11..... 🤔 🤔

I gotta call BS.

That number is most definitely too high.

we still need a bullsh^t flag smiley.... 😟

essential is a fun word to play around with. It's not in the context you want it to be but fun none the less.

I know.. it's like around the holidays here and you get the e-mail stating Non-esentials can start the weeked early.. 🤔 do you really want to leave or not.. 🤔

I'd argue no one is essential in virtually any work place. To think you are is foolish. We are all replaceable and most of us take vacaitons without our organizaiton crashing down.


In this instance the designation of essential and not is bizaar.