Report: EPA Paid $14.5 Million to Foreign Fellows that Could Have Funded Research by U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents
Report #18-P-0288, September 26, 2018
What Was Found
We found that 64 percent of EPA fellowships awarded to NAS were to foreign nationals.
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