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Post by Kady on Sept 9, 2018 16:30:53 GMT -5
Fed up with new direction under Trump, EPA staffers exit the agency thinkprogress.org/epa-staffers-exodus-under-trump-8093c918f21f/ Fed up with new direction under Trump, EPA staffers exit the agency “I did not want to any longer be any part of this administration’s nonsense.” Patrick Smith Sep 9, 2018, 12:44 pm A mass exodus of workers is depleting the ranks of the Environmental Protection Agency, shrinking the federal office tasked with safeguarding America’s natural resources to its smallest size in decades, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Since President Trump has taken office, 1,600 EPA employees have departed the EPA. The Post notes that this has shrunk its workforce “to levels not seen since the Reagan administration.” Staff departures, coupled with a slowness to replace them, accomplishes a stated goal of the Trump administration: shrinking the federal government. In addition to the EPA, the Post notes that nearly all federal agencies are seeing dramatic reductions in workforce under Trump. This is increasingly making carrying out their missions much more difficult. And with the possibility of budget cuts still on the table, further staff attrition could be in the future. The now former EPA staffers noted their frustration with Trump’s radically anti-environment agenda, saying it was the catalyst for their decision. Scientist Ann Williamson told the Post, “I did not want to any longer be any part of this administration’s nonsense.” |
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Post by tnthomas on Sept 9, 2018 16:55:31 GMT -5
I'm sorry to see them leave, but perhaps they can do positive things for the future outside of Trump's crippled EPA.
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Post by Kady on Sept 10, 2018 19:57:02 GMT -5
What a vengeful ignorant fool he is...... Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere. Methane, which is among the most powerful greenhouse gases, routinely leaks from oil and gas wells, and energy companies have long said that the rules requiring them to test for emissions were costly and burdensome. The Environmental Protection Agency, perhaps as soon as this week, plans to make public a proposal to weaken an Obama-era requirement that companies monitor and repair methane leaks, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. In a related move, the Interior Department is also expected in coming days to release its final version of a draft rule, proposed in February, that essentially repeals a restriction on the intentional venting and “flaring,” or burning, of methane from drilling operations. The new rules follow two regulatory rollbacks this year that, taken together, represent the foundation of the United States’ effort to rein in global warming. In July, the E.P.A. proposed weakening a rule on carbon dioxide pollution from vehicle tailpipes. And in August, the agency proposed replacing the rule on carbon dioxide pollution from coal-fired power plants with a weaker one that would allow far more global-warming emissions to flow unchecked from the nation’s smokestacks. “They’re taking them down, one by one,” said Janet McCabe, the E.P.A.’s top climate and clean-air regulator in the Obama administration. www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-administration-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-release-methane-into-air/ar-BBN9Ahz?li=BBnbcA1 |
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