Hyma Moore

Yeah, happy New Year.

It's great to be with you.

The core mission of EPA is protecting human health and the environment.

We are working to empower the great American comeback, understanding what that Trump mandate is that the American public voted for November of 2024.

First and foremost, it's about clean air, land, and water for all Americans.

There are other priorities that the American public spoke out about when electing President Trump.

Priorities like unleashing energy dominance, advancing cooperative federalism, permitting reform, making America the AI capital of the world, protecting bring back American auto jobs.

It's also important to note that EPA has a lot of core statutory obligations.

under landmark laws that are on the books like Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Say Drinking Water Act, and a number of other federal statutes that give EPA responsibilities to fulfill regardless of who's in charge.

Well, the difference would be on the operational side and the policy side.

On the operational side, we're doing more with less.

We came in with over 16,000 employees.

We ended last year with about 12 and a half thousand employees.

We are prioritizing our core statutory obligations.

rather than sending bandwidth and resources towards partisan pet projects.

We, as a result, inherited a lot of backlogs.

We're talking about 14,000 in the pesticide review, hundreds of state implementation plans, small refinery exemption requests, blown deadlines on setting renewable volume obligations, new chemical review.

goes on of all different kinds of backlogs that we inherited when we came in in January of 2025 and we're working to get through all of it.

We've done an agency-wide reorganization and maybe most importantly or the highest profile item on the operational side is to implement a zero tolerance policy for any waste and abuse.

Our annual operating budget is about $10 billion a year.