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TOP OFFICIAL RESIGNS FROM TRUMP EPA WITH SCATHING LETTER

by | August 3, 2017
From: Huff Post “Faced with such painful choices, the best possible outcome for the American people would be regulatory paralysis where no new rules are released so that existing protections remain in place.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

TOP EPA OFFICIAL RESIGNS OVER DIRECTION OF AGENCY UNDER TRUMP

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From: The Hill “Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency with a scathing exit letter in which she claimed that “the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth.” She last worked as the director of science and ...

SENIOR EPA OFFICIAL RESIGNS WITH SCATHING MESSAGE FOR TRUMP AND PRUITT

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From: Think Progress “In her farewell letter, posted publicly by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Southerland singles out several Trump-era regulatory rollbacks, which she argues are threatening the core mission of the EPA.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

TRACKING ZERO TOLERANCE IN THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

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From: National Parks Traveler “last week Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said that a superintendent of De Soto National Memorial who had admitted inappropriate behavior toward female employees was given a lateral transfer to a larger park to handle partnerships.” ...

TWO OFFICIALS, TWO AGENCIES, TWO EXITS WITH HARSH WORDS FOR TRUMP

by | August 2, 2017
From: Government Executive “In a statement released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Southerland went public as a dissenter from the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, saying, “Today the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of ...

EPA BIGWIG’S BOO-HOO EXIT – IF ONLY MORE WOULD LEAVE

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From: Washington Times ““The truth is,” she wrote, The Hill reported, “There is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
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