July 7, 2010: An Environmental Protection Agency worker looks at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill which seeped into a marsh in Waveland, Mississippi. (CREDIT: REUTERS)
In a Fox News exclusive, officials said the 8 Environmental Protection Agency employees racked up a total of more than ten years’ worth of paid “administrative leave” from 2011 to 2014 — which is valued at more than $1,096,000 — were involved in “cases of alleged serious misconduct.”
In a memorandum sent from EPA’s acting assistant administrator, Nanci E. Gelb, to EPA’s inspector general, Arthur Elkins — which Fox News was able to get a hold of — the agency says that at least 3 of the affected employees have now left EPA.
All of the eight “were or are subject to a disciplinary process,” an EPA official told Fox News, adding that, “we cannot comment on the circumstances of their departure from the agency for those who are no longer employed by EPA.”
Meanwhile, the White House dumped more than 3,400 rules and regulations on the American people and economy during the Thanksgiving holiday, many of which administrated by the EPA.
