LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Federal workers are continuing to feel the impacts of the federal government shutdown, which entered its 23rd day on Thursday.

The Environmental Protection Agency is among those impacted, with about 700 of the 1,000 Great Lakes Area EPA workers having been furloughed on Monday.

Nicole Cantello, president of the American Federation of Government Employees union, which represents EPA workers in Michigan, said cases and reports that happen while workers are furloughed may never be properly reported or recovered.

“With all these employees furloughed, there’s going to be inspections of polluters that are never going to happen — that are just not going to occur and those polluters will continue to foul our air our water because [the] EPA won’t have the staff to go out

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