WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency intends to terminate its scientific research office and fired more than a thousand scientists and other employees who help environmental pollution to provide scientific basis for human health and environmental protection rules.
According to documents reviewed by the Democratic staff in the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, at least 1,155 chemists, biology, toxic experts and other scientists – 75 % of 75 % of the research program staff can be dropped.
Planned roofs developed as part of the Trump administration as part of the federal government’s widespread pressure to reduce and make it more efficient, critics attacked them as widespread eliminating the EPA’s long -term mission for public health and environment protection.
These projects were first reported by The New York Times.
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EPA Administrator Li Zieldon has said that he wants to eliminate 65 % of the agency’s budget, which will require a reduction in costs, which will require a significant reduction in jobs such as air and water quality monitoring, responding to natural disasters and leading the agency’s reduction. The EPA has also issued guidance, which directed that the goods spent more than 50,000 need approval from the performance of the billionaire Elon Musk’s department.
According to the memo, the Office of Research and Development – EPA’s Central Science Arm – currently consists of 1,540 positions except special government employees and public health officers. The memo said the majority of the staff is from 50 % to 75 % – “will not be maintained.”
The memo says the project calls for dissolution of the research office and re -assigning the rest of the staff in other parts of the agency to “be compatible with growing surveillance and administration’s priorities.” EPA officials have presented the plan to review the White House.
EPA spokesman Molly Waselio said the agency “is taking interesting steps” as “entering the next phase of organizational improvement,” but said the changes have not been finalized.
“We are committed to enhancing clean air, water and land supply for all Americans,” he added, “he added,” Although no decision has been made yet, we are actively listening to employees at all levels to collect ideas about increasing performance and make sure it is effective and effective. “
Zhu Lofagran, a California representative, a senior Democrat for the Science Committee, said in a statement that the agency’s research office was formed by Congress and “it is illegal to abolish it.”
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Lofgen said that every decision that the EPA makes should “pursue human health and environment protection, and that may not happen if you go to EPA science.”
He added, “This is not the case and that’s the case,” he added, “he added. For, for, for,. Lofgen said, “Americans are putting the lower letters of their pollution colleagues on the health and safety of Americans.
In his first term, he, “Trump and his Cronnesis did and distorted science politics.”
“Trump’s EPA is still putting pollution on people,” said Tikora Jones, chief science officer of the Environment Group Natural Resources Defense Council.
He demanded the Congress to “stand and demand that the EPA put its scientists in the heart so that we can all get clean and clean water we need and deserve it.”
