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Listen to our staff talk about their latest audit, evaluation and investigation reports and other initiatives. We produce these podcasts to further inform and engage the broader public about our mission. These audio podcast files are for use by the media, schools, or anyone else and may be freely broadcasted. Our podcasts are in MP3 format which is compatible with most audio players. 

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Date Podcasts
 
Dec 21, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Teresa Richardson

Report: #17-P-0062, Congressionally Requested Audit - EPA Needs to Improve Processes for Preserving Text Messages as Federal Records

 
Dec 12, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Denton Stafford

Report: #17-P-0053, Additional Measures Can Be Taken to Prevent Deaths and Serious Injuries From Residential Fumigations

 
Oct 20, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Charles Brunton

Report: #17-P-0004, Drinking Water Contamination in Flint, Michigan, Demonstrates a Need to Clarify EPA Authority to Issue Emergency Orders to Protect the Public

 
Sept 27, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Kevin Collins

Report: #16-P-0333, Enhanced Controls Needed to Prevent Further Abuse of Religious Compensatory Time

 
Sept 26, 2016

Discussion with Chris Lukas.

Chris Lukas, the Special Agent in Charge of the Electronic Crimes Division within the OIG's Office of Investigations talks about computer forensics, cybercrime in the EPA and his division's role in criminal investigations.

 
Aug 31, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Kathy Hess


Report: #16-P-0296, Progress Made, but Improvements Needed at CTS of Asheville Superfund Site in North Carolina to Advance Cleanup Pace and Reduce Potential Exposure

 
Aug 19, 2016

Discussion with Clay Brown

Listen to Special Agent Clay Brown discuss the prevention and detection fraud, waste and abuse in the EPA.

 
Aug 18, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Jim Kohler

Report: #16-P-0275EPA Has Not Met Certain Statutory Requirements to Identify Environmental Impacts of Renewable Fuel Standard

 
Aug 16, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Cathy Allen

Report: #16-P-0268, EPA Needs to Improve Oversight of Its Transit Subsidy Benefits Program

 
June 1, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Gabby Fekete

Report: #16-P-0194, EPA Needs Better Data, Plans and Tools to Manage Insect Resistance to Genetically Engineered Corn

 
May 23, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Neven Soliman

Report: #16-P-0179, CSB Needs to Continue to Improve Agency Governance and Operations

 
May 2, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Tiffine Johnson-Davis

Report: #16-P-0162, EPA Needs to Assess Environmental and Economic Benefits of Completed Clean Water State Revolving Fund Green Projects

 
Mar 22, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Alli Dutton

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Report #16-P-0108, Drinking Water: EPA Needs to Take Additional Steps to Ensure Small Community Water Systems Designated as Serious Violators Achieve Compliance

 
Jan 13, 2016

Podcast: Report Overview with Randy Holthaus

Report #16-P-0082, EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment: Obtainable Records Show EPA Followed Required Procedures Without Bias or Predetermination, but a Possible Misuse of Position Noted

 
Nov 25, 2015

Discussion with Dr. Bruce Woods

Dr. Bruce Woods, a chemist in the Electronic Crimes Division within the OIG’s Office of Investigations discusses his recent webinar for the Association of Public Health Laboratories on lab fraud. 

 
Nov 18, 2015

Discussion with Clay Brown

Listen to Special Agent Clay Brown discuss how the EPA OIG Hotline works, who uses it and how to file a hotline complaint.

 
Oct 20, 2015

Discussion with Brian Scriver

OIG Special Agent Brian Scriver talks about the Guardians Project, which protects from fraud, waste and abuse federal funds intended to benefit communities in Indian Country.

 
Sept 28, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Lela Wong

Report #15-P-0298, Early Warning Report: EPA Region 9 Should Withhold Award of the Fiscal Year 2015 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Grant to the Hawaii Department of Health

 
 
Sept 15, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Natasha Henry

Report #15-P-0279, EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program Lacks Adequate Support and Transparency and Should Be Assessed for Continuation

 
July 16, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Khadija Walker

Report #15-P-0204, Enhanced EPA Oversight and Action Can Further Protect Water Resources From the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing 

 
 
 
July 6, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Jim Kohler

Report #15-P-0172, EPA Does Not Effectively Control or Monitor Imports of Hazardous Waste 

 
 
June 16, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Michael Wilson

Report #15-P-0168, EPA Should Update Guidance to Address the Release of Potentially Harmful Quantities of Asbestos That Can Occur Under EPA’s Asbestos Demolition Standard

 
 
May 28, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Erin Barnes-Weaver

Report #15-N-0164, FY 2015 EPA Management Challenges

 
 
Apr 17, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Katie Butler

Report #15-P-0137, Conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands Warrant EPA Withdrawing Approval and Taking Over Management of Some Environmental Programs and Improving Oversight of Others 

 
 
Feb 26, 2015

Podcast: Report Overview with Rich Jones

Report #15-P-0101, EPA Regions Have Considered Environmental Justice When Targeting Facilities for Air Toxics Inspections

 
 
Nov 19, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Leah Nikaidoh

Report #15-N-0025, Early Warning Report: Some EPA Employees Found to Be on Paid Administrative Leave for Years

 
 
Oct 6, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Marcia Hirt-Reigeluth

Report #15-P-0001EPA's Fleet Management Program Needs Improvement

 
 
Sept 9, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Jerri Dorsey

Report #14-P-0349, EPA Can Help Consumers Identify Household and Other Products with Safer Chemicals by Strengthening Its "Design for the Environment" Program

 
 
Sept 3, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Genevieve Soule

Report #14-P-0348, Nutrient Pollution: EPA Needs to Work With States to Develop Strategies for Monitoring the Impact of State Activities on the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone

 
 
June 25, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Erica Hauck

Report #14-P-0324, Improvements Needed in EPA Efforts to Address Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Distribution Pipelines 

 
 
June 22, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Christine Baughman

Report #14-P-0321, Follow-Up Report: EPA Improves Management of Its Radiation Monitoring System 

 
 
June 17, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Jill Trynosky

Report #14-P-0302, EPA Has Made Progress in Assessing Historical Lead Smelter Sites But Needs to Strengthen Procedures

 
 
May 28, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Deputy Inspector General Chuck Sheehan

Report: EPA's Key Management Challenges 2014

 
 
Mar 31, 2014

Podcast: Report Overview with Renee McGhee-Lenart

Report #14-P-0154, Improvements to EPA Policies and Guidance Could Enhance Protection of Human Study Subjects

 
 
Dec 11, 2013

Podcast: Report Overview with Vanessa Rodriguez-Moya

Report #14-P-0037, Early Warning Report: Internal Controls and Management Actions Concerning John C. Beale's Travel

 
 
Dec 11, 2013

Podcast: Report Overview with John Trefry

Report #14-P-0036, Early Warning Report: Internal Controls and Management Actions Concerning John C. Beale Pay Issues

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