The backlog of requests at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grew from 1783 requests at the end of fiscal year 2020 to 1995 requests at the end of FY 2021, an increase of 11.9 percent, according to quarterly data available on FOIA.gov. The agency received 7098 requests in FY 2021, up 3 percent from 6891 requests in FY 2020; it processed 7475 requests in FY 2021, down 3.7 percent from 7765 requests in FY 2020.