E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves<br />This is the effort of the Republicans under the Obama administration on steroids,” said John J. O’Grady,<br />president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a union representing E. P.A.<br />The cuts deepen a downward trend at the agency that began under the Obama administration in response to Republican-led budget constraints<br />that left the agency with about 15,000 employees at the end of his term.
