Nearly 90 percent of EPA furloughed as government shuts down

About 89 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) workforce is being furloughed arsenic the authorities shuts down, according to contingency plans that were posted online this week. According to the plan, conscionable 1,734 of the EPA’s 15,166 employees are slated to proceed moving during the shutdown, which began Wednesday. The program besides gives a window…