EPA transition leader says the agency is an impending disaster forTrump
“This is an impending disaster for the Trump administration.” That’s how Myron Ebell, the climate science denier who oversaw the transition team for President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, described the state of the agency to a conservative conference, according to tapes obtained by Reuters.
Ebell’s concern is not the dramatic, unpopular cuts Trump will reportedly serve the EPA in his forthcoming budget, or how those cuts will be received by the American people and Congress. He thinks they don’t go far enough.
The actions taken thus far by the Trump administration to gut the EPA budget, to prevent EPA from relying on science in its decision-making, and to undo regulations aimed at protecting public health and a livable climate have already led to the agency’s own staff “openly mocking” Trump’s “callous” policies, as as one retiree explained. But for conservatives like Ebell, the disaster is that the administration, and particularly EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, are doing far too little.
What has this wing of conservatives so upset they are attacking Pruitt, despite the fact that he rejects and misrepresents mainstream climate science and has already embarked on the most radical rollback of basic environmental protections since the EPA was created?
“Paris and the endangerment finding are the two big outstanding issues,” Ebell said at the conference. “It’s the first wave of things that are necessary to turn this country around.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-epa-budget-disaster-ab3da236ce3d
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