Former employees critique EPA under Trump in new report

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/501030-former-employees-critique-epa-in-new-report

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 EPA’s 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.

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It particularly critiqued the EPA’s actions with regard to climate change and pollution controls and its handling of science and laid out dozens of changes made by the agency over the past several years.

“When it comes to setting back public health and environmental protection, Trump has been relentlessly thorough,” said a statement from Ellen Kurlansky, a former analyst in the EPA’s clean air program and report co-author.

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