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Why do admin people almost always call it just "EPA" but usually use the definite articles for other agencies? Are there other agencies that are consistently used this way?

It's "the EPA." I don't know where you've seen it used otherwise, unless EPA is being used as an adjective ("EPA guidelines require..."), but that also applies to the SEC and every other agency acronym I can think of.

It's like that in every SCOTUS oral argument too

rinkrat19 wrote:It's "the EPA." I don't know where you've seen it used otherwise, unless EPA is being used as an adjective ("EPA guidelines require..."), but that also applies to the SEC and every other agency acronym I can think of.

My Breyer/Vermeule admin casebook exclusively uses just EPA. Massachusetts v EPA also uses it that way, for example.

I believe FDA doesn't use "the" either.

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/

Do you know why we don't say "the" before CIA?... You say don't "the" before God do you?

- Matt Damon

(the EPA is Jesus)