From an Environmental Protection Agency staffer:

[babylonsister]

Sharing with permission.:
From an Environmental Protection Agency staffer: "So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing: The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated. All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released. No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.
Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.
All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon. But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now. We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."

[MineralMan]

1. I'm not surprised. Trump and his merry band of Putinistas wants to

dismantle the government in the name of anarchy or something.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. More like theft dressed up as anarchy.

They're just thieves. They came to rob the treasury. Somebody lock the door!

[Dustlawyer]

11. Bingo!

The Plutocrats had their media air Trump 24/7 during the campaign, this was a set up deal. Donald had his Russian connection going on to help him in and now, once in, he has put other Plutocrats directly in charge of the agencies that stood in their way. They are making it safe to pollute, favor their own interests etc.

They have Sessions (for now) to not investigate them, get rid of regulations that prevent them from raping and pillaging, and now have 5 tort reform bills that will keep us from suing them for the harm that they cause to all of us!

We have literally been taken over in a coup! What Trump and Co., have done, deceptively misrepresenting their intentions in order to get elected would be illegal in business. In Texas it would violate our Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) "Knowingly and intentionally misrepresenting goods or services with the intent not to sell them as advertised... "

[xxqqqzme]

15. Also known as

FRAUD

[JudyM]

16. Your last paragraph is interesting. It'd be great if there were some standard that he violated,

something with teeth. Unfortunately, intent would be nearly impossible to prove.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. U.S. EPA - Ungagged Twitter feed

U.S. EPA - Ungagged: @ungaggedEPA

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Also....several altepa twitter sites and rogue epa sites

I follow this one:

https://twitter.com/altUSEPA

[luvMIdog]

4. this actually made me feel like I was going to vomit

[BSdetect]

5. Just disgusting way to run a government

Freedom of info should be used.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Against the law to withhold information taxpayers paid for (unless official secret). Free the EPA!

[Cosmocat]

8. THIS is what this counary bought

Enabling "conservatism" for the last three decades.

[Hortensis]

9. Don't doubt especially, but recommend QUESTIONing this kind

of thing. Left-wing fake news monitors are seeing a lot of fake postings from supposed inside leakers that are not real.

This one is unattributed, which makes it questionable, but of course we know that in essence at least much is true. The EPA budget is being gutted, the money instead diverted to such things as building a ridiculous southern wall and creating an agency for blaring stories of victims of immigrant crime.

Nevertheless, soaking up fake information will cook our brains as surely as anyone else's. Anyone who cares about maintaining good judgment should be careful and verify, verify, verify.

[NBachers]

10. Smuggled out from behind the Republican Curtain.

[red dog 1]

12. K&R

What a nightmare!

[ffr]

13. Deja-vu: How many times has this been posted on DU?

It's been in the wild for over a month now.

http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/an-epa-employee-post-making-the-rounds/68382023/

https://www.facebook.com/RepublicanMemes/posts/1112180188894293

http://bluevirginia.us/2017/01/work-epa-yeah-bad-hearing

https://extranewsfeed.com/potus-isnt-just-suppressing-he-s-destroying-data-they-re-taking-computers-66f21225eda5#.c2xlt53tj

[bronxiteforever]

14. Thanks for posting. This tracks with the Atlantic Magazine State Dept article

Horrible.

CRY the beloved country

[calimary]

17. Good resource, this thread.

I'd heard about some of those rogue sites, but it's nice to have them listed here, too.

Noting and bookmarking this.

[benld74]

18. HS buddy has 30 EPA years

Was thinking of 35

Pruitt named

Buddy will have 30