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The EPA is beginning to feel under assault..
http://www.govexec.com/management/2017/04/trumps-epa-consolidation-begins/136896/?oref=govexec_today_nlSome EPA employees are starting to feel the shift in priorities. One career worker told Government Executive the agency is sending out newsletters with headlines like “Great News” and what follows is news relating to cuts and program cancellations.
“It’s like something in The Onion,” the employee said. “We feel like we’re in occupied territory.”
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The internal shift follows a push from Congress to restrict the way EPA conducts scientific activity. The House last week passed the Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment (HONEST) Act to restrict the types of scientific studies the agency’s employees can use to justify their actions. Republican proponents of the bill said the measure would bring more transparency and better research to EPA’s processes, while its opponents said the measure would have unintended consequences and prevent decision making based on sound scientific conclusions.
What could possibly go wrong?