Top EPA official resigns over direction of agency under Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

A top Environmental Protection Agency official resigned Tuesday in protest of the direction the EPA has taken under President Trump.

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 technology in the Office of Water.

“The truth is there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities,” Southerland wrote, directly rejecting many of Trump’s claims.

Southerland said that since EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took over the agency, dozens of regulations designed to protect the environment had been repealed, and Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the agency would devastate its ability to enforce existing protections and create new ones.

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[groundloop]

1. Can't blame anyone for leaving under these conditions, but sadly this is what 45* wants

Unfortunately 45* is going to leave several federal agencies in shambles, they're turning into a mere skeleton of what they were. But 45* and most other repukes are applauding this.

[Owl]

7. And the new hires will be repukes.

[byronius]

2. This is the most bizarre and least defensible part of the Idiot Philosophy of Conservatism.

'Pollute! Poison! Cut down every tree! Kill all the wildlife! Burn everything!'

Front-stabbing themselves in a fit of weird suicide-writ-large. Insane. Wholly insane.

The EPA budget needs to be doubled at the cost of all oil company subsidies. 2020. Done.

Done and damn them all to hell.

[IronLionZion]

5. Conservatives claim to love America

while destroying the land and people instead of conservation. I wonder what exactly it is they love.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Soon there won't be anyone left in several agencies. Poor, poor USA.

[thecrow]

6. By the time they're done, the country will be weaker

and anybody can come into power that even seems to have a good idea.

[demmiblue]

4. Grrr...