Former employees critique EPA under Trump in new report
Source: The Hill
BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 06/04/20 12:01 AM EDT
A group of former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees has released a report condemning the direction the agency has gone under President Trump.
In the report released early Thursday, the group called Save EPA wrote that the Trump administration has been relentless in its efforts to roll back public health and environmental protections, weaken enforcement of those protections, and cripple EPAs capacity to address new and existing problems.
Virtually all the changes that Trump has made have one thing in common: They help polluters and harm the public, now and in the future, the report said.
The report also documented what it described as a slowing down of enforcement. It said that in 2018, the number of inspections or evaluations to determine legal compliance was less than 60 percent of the annual average since 2001 and that the number of criminal cases opened was about a third of the levels reported between 2008 and 2013.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/501030-former-employees-critique-epa-in-new-report
Hmm, not having the best night I could ideally be having.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Thank you for posting this.
Submariner
(12,485 posts)as Biden's people reverse every stinking change that asshole Trump has inflicted upon us. There has been some environmental damage, but the policy changes will be reversed quickly.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)in the shuffle, just like attention to COVID-19, gloomy predictions of a nasty hurricane season, concerns for the unemployed, etc., etc., - all because BunkerBoy keeps putting out shiny little objects (walks in the park after teargas clears the way / threats of military intervention against the right to protest) and we must sit and wait for November to boot his FAT A$$ out of OUR White House!