EPA Details Two-Year Plan For 'Lean' Management Opposed By Trump Critics

摘要

EPA senior officials are detailing a two-year plan for fully implementing a "Lean" management system that they say will overhaul and accelerate agency operations, but some Trump administration critics oppose the approach fearing it will diminish environmental protections and reduce EPA's workforce. In Jan. 30 remarks at an EPA National Executive Leadership Development Conference in Washington, D.C., agency Chief of Operations Henry Darwin touted Lean, which is a set of principles and methods to help organizations identify and eliminate inefficiency in their processes. EPA launched a Lean Government Initiative in 2014 "as a way to maximize the agency's ability to effectively implement its mission," a 2014 EPA memo says.