EPA chief Zeldin announces overhauls to bring agency back to Reagan-level staffing

The agency president, Lee Zilden, announced on Friday that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing a tremendous reform to reduce employees to the levels of Reagan’s reign and provide hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Zeldin said in a press statement on Friday: “Reorganization will bring this efficiency that affects the need to integrate science in setting our rules and focusing sharply on our work to provide the cleaner of air, land and water to our societies,” Zilden said in a press statement on Friday.

Zeldin announced that on a mission to provide taxpayers, an estimated 300 million dollars annually by next year by reforming an office he said would maintain the Environmental Protection Agency focus on protecting human health and the environment with the “commitment” of the agency to “proper sense policies”.

The Environmental Protection Agency employs approximately 15,000 full -time workers, which Zildin said is working to drop levels “near those seen when President Ronald Reagan occupied the White House,” according to a video announcement of the office’s reform. There were 11,400 Environmental Protection Agency employees in 1984 under Reagan, according to Reuters.

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The Environmental Protection Agency said that the official’s office, the air and radiation office, the chemical safety and protection office (OCSPP), and the water office will all face a restructuring.

Zeldeen said that the agency’s research office will reorganize its focus on “legal obligations and basic jobs for the mission”, including by establishing a new office called the Office of Applied Sciences and Environmental Solutions.

The new office will “give priority to research and set the flag at the forefront of setting the rules of the agency and technical assistance to the states. At the level of the program, the Chemical Safety Office and the prevention of pollution will add more than 130 scientific, technical and vital technical experts, and they also review that they also enjoy to the important experts. Beyond the schedules of the expected review in the pesticide program.”

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The Environmental Protection Agency will also create the Air Office Partners Office in the Air and Radiation Office, which Zeldin said will resolve the concerns that air has allowed all over the state, local and tribal level.

“The Environmental Protection Agency is also creating a clean air programs office that will carry legal obligations and basic functions of the task based on experience centers to ensure more transparency and harmony in organizational development. Likewise, the changes in the water office will better develop regulations, guidance and politics with the sciences that are related to it,” Zealin added from another new office in the Shakeup agency.

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Zealin confirmed that when the agency took earlier this year, “he inherited a workforce that did not enter the office.”

The director of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin is attending a meeting with US President Donald Trump and the Secretary -General of NATO Mark Retty at the White House Oval Office on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“In 2024, the high attendance day at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in the capital recorded about 37 %. When President Trump performed, he immediately finished the distant work in the Kofid era.”

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The former member of the New York congress added that the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency last year alone, under the Biden Administration, sat at $ 63 billion – although it was previously funded by between 6 billion and 8 billion dollars a year.

The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

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“We will reduce this excessive spending significantly. We owe US ​​taxpayers to be as effective. We have already started making great progress by reviewing grants and contracts, real estate design, travel costs, employees and more. With the help of DOGE, the Environmental Protection Agency has set more than $ 22 billion.