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Via: Guardian
Reflecting on Trump’s dozens of attacks on core environmental protections, officials share their frustration Donald Trump’s environment agency “actually seems to have a war on the environment”, has been “utterly untenable”, and has brought about “deeply, deeply troubling times”, according to three administrators appointed under past presidents. Reflecting on Trump’s dozens of attacks on core environmental protections, a fourth put it another way: “[I’m] really god damned pissed off – and that’s being kind.” Related: Trump administration ends gray wolf’s endangered species protections The agency has 14,172 employees, about one for every 23,161 US residents, according to a separate report by EDGI. In comparison, the transportation department has almost four times as many employees, and the agriculture department has roughly six times as many employees as EPA, according to the Office of Personnel Management, which uses slightly different numbers. EPA staffing peaked in 1999 and fell 21.7% by 2019, to about the same number of staffers as under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The agency’s budget has not fared much better. In 1999, it was $7.6bn. Adjusting only for inflation, it should be $11.7bn today. But it is not, it is $9.1bn. Continue reading…
