The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.
Isn't Junior supposedly some sort of activist environmental attorney? He's got nothing to say about this? Junior is such a pathetic fraud.
We are just continuing to F ourselves and the planet.
Science is the demon for those who abhor the truth.
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These folks are so dumb and their stupidity has significant negative implications for all of us.
This scumbag was a politician on Long Island and knows the dangers of unchecked MFG and dumping chemicals in the earth. Long Island has the most Superfund sites anywhere in the nation. And it's all because no one was watching, now he's cutting those who keep us safe. Republicans are scum.
Terrible Congressman, Gubernatorial loser, and a lackey EPA director.
the blind leading the lame
Mediocre white boy with small dick energy!! Hope it comes to a tap in his dungeon
EPA is really speed-running that Mad Max route.
Of course, it's only us old farts who recall smog and burning rivers. The EPA is a big reason things got better. (Setting aside all the carbon in the air)
Travesty
It’s like when Trump eliminated the Pandemic Response team
More dismantling of important government services.
An action that allows the coal, oil, and gas industries to do whatever they want. Obviously, because they are directing the action.
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I wonder if this person has children/grandchildren. If he does, will he take ownership for what he's doing/did to their environment. Hmmm I doubt it. He'll blame someone else.
The untold damage being done by this administration and Republicans is going to manifest itself on people in the coming decades who are not paying attention now.
Ite damage will affect us all.
We suck at managing politicians now hiring criminals !
This man lives as close to Long Island's exclusive Hampton suburbs as the elites would let him.
Let a bring back the 70’s and all the burning rivers
Lee Zeldin is an evil piece of crap. I hope he's the first to get sick
As someone looking in on the US from Europe I just cannot believe the bull-in-a china-shop approach that has been adopted by the current US misadministration. There is neither strategy nor rationale behind the decisions: It is just destruction for destruction's sake a la Cambodia under Pol Pot.
It’s a bull that was kept on reigns by former “sensible” republicans, even George W, but Trump has cut the reigns and let the bulls in party run riot. They are implementing all the dreams and wishes, they ever had. And don’t care about the consequences. And Trump will aid them, to “own the libs”
this is going to be yet another mid-term to long-term disaster
Thank you for posting this. What they are doing to the agency will have repercussion for decades.
Making smog great again
And we’re experiencing more food recalls than ever before since USDA was gutted!
Yes…
This guy looks like he's having the best time of his life destroying clean air/water for everyone.
They want all of us dead.
Refuse to be destroyed, friend. 💚
This admin seems intent on leaving our grandkids a barren, polluted land, emptied of resources to make a very few.........rich. Future Americans will be right to curse us.
This Republican douchebag Zeldin ran for New York State Governor and lost. He received millions in donations from Russian oligarchs.
We can announce these changes but the public won't remember and will not connect subsequent health concerns/issues to these actions. Neocons count on this.
Evil at work...
Saying it doesn’t exist doesn’t make it not exist. Donald Trump was never president. See?
What do you think is the purpose of the replacement version? Just an excuse for layoffs?
Time to split this fucking country.
Iran will be coming for the drinking water
Stupid ass
INSANITY.
The EPA was created by Republican President, Richard Nixon. The Republicans hate the environment now. They don't care about the health and safety of the public or our ecosystem. They are all dumb, duped, cruel, and heartless. VOTE OUT EVERY SINGLE LAST REPUBLICAN FROM OFFICE NEXT YEAR 2 REVERSE THIS
America is becoming a 💩Hole country.
FUCKING TRUMP WANTS US ALL TO DIE.
Since when was dismantling democracy on the ballot? 🤷 The orange demagogue didn't 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭 the election but with the help of rocket boy, he certainly 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 it by carefully targeting swings states and districts with negative ads that discouraged folks from voting. It's democracy 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 they're stealing!
Where by "we" we mean a small group of people engaged in a coup against the will of the American people as enacted by Congress.
The EPA is actually a Republican creation started by Nixon. Under Reagan it was instrumental in taking successful action against ozone depletion and acid rain. Now Republicans are destroying it when it is needed the most.
For all you young kids out there: It was Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon who created the EPA. That's how far the GOP has sunk into depravity
Which I say in my second post. :)
It seems to have been EPA themselves who decided to save money by dismantling this particular branch, the 'Heart and brain of EPA’. Sound stupid of them, is it to save the paperturners and administrators?
Isn’t this in direct contradiction to RFKjr’s insistence that most of our chronic, epidemic health problems are the result of the Sad American Diet and environmental pollution? Real scientific and medical expertise must prevail over the cockamamie pseudoscience being spouted by spin doctors.
If you need help finding your states dept, check this list on the EPA website before it gets scrubbed from the internet by DOGE www.epa.gov/lmop/list-st...
The USA really will become the pariah country of the civilised world at this rate, they’ll have their entire establishment kicked out of any decisions on just about everything and it will cost them dearly!
It is obvious that anything good or anything that can benefit our future is being shut down. What exactly are MAGA lobbyists lobbying for? They don’t want clean air, water, safe drugs, vaccines, education, healthcare, veterans to have jobs, women to have safe medical help..what is IT do they want?
Yet another self-inflicted wound.
Because it interferes with profits for massive corporations. Disgusting and completely at odds with what they claim to be doing to keep people healthy (MAHA nonsense).
I thought when Zeldin lost the race to become our Governor that we would finally be done with him, but just like herpes he keeps coming back. 😩😩😩
My biggest fear is that we won’t be able to get those professionals back and rebuild the departments, even if we somehow stop this train.
It’s going to be a significant undertaking. It will be years, decades.
That’s the scariest part. How many left the country that will never, ever return? Even if we fix this tomorrow, the damage to the infrastructure isn’t just a “throw money at it” repair.
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We are really going to regret this when our rivers start bursting into flames AGAIN (google it if you don’t know what I’m talking about)
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I just hope that all these will be treated as crimes at some point
Regime-GOP killing healthcare , killing clean air , killing water, killing soils, killing atmosphere = killing citizens and killing the Earth.
60-70% of people want universal healthcare. So do it: Put the market on the SUPPLY side & a single-payer on the DEMAND side. Democrats: Change! Talk about both social AND market principles! You will win big! Any intellectual arguments? Tell 'em to go... look at this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3C...
Who needs all those things. Survival of the fittest right? Don’t all those anti-vaxers think of you eat right and live right your body can fight off anything? Except of course VD. For some reason, I bet they use protection during sex.
As a geoenvironmental professional with over 30 years in the field, I can say that this is a huge blow to environmental protection worldwide. If you are a scientist in the US, think about Canada. We have room up here.
I appreciate the thought, but Canada has preferential hiring for citizens, and can’t begin to accommodate the thousands of out-of-work federal scientists we have, let alone all the academics looking for an exit. The brain drain will sadly be due to people leaving science, not leaving the US.
Academia is only one route - I've worked in both public and private sectors - there are opportunities as the boomers age out.
I have family in Norway who keep saying that if I get fired from my federal scientist position that I should go there. Even if that were possible, I’m not ready to give up on our country yet.
trump and company are taking us back to 1930's.
Poisoning us all the dirty bastards
The Trump Administration is abetting a smash and grab for all the billionaires, foreign oligarchs, and polluters in the world. For the foreseeable future, America and its people will be stripped and exploited in every possible way.
Zetlin is a hired hitman. Taking out the entire Environmental Protection Agency. Great job voters. Take pictures of our natural environment now. That’s all we will have to remember it in the future.
Thank god, the last thing I wanted was cleaner air, water, and less chemicals in the environment
They really want us all to just suffer and die.
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They didnt 'provide the science behind regulations' at all, they let the corporations and industry provide their scientific research then rubber stamped it as gods truth when EPA did science it was to prove industry followed standards that industry set for themselves
The EPA isn't perfect, and it certainly was heavily influenced by the people in charge, but this is a gross misrepresentation that does a massive disservice to the hundreds of hardworking public servants in the trenches there.
Fuck that. Their executives are hand picked by industry and often worked for the corporations themselves the 'public servants' are just for show
Well, it stands to reason that if you are eliminating regulations on how industry affects the environment, you don't need your own researchers, right?
Trump is gutting America.
"Make America willfully ignorant and poisoned again".
So much WINNING!
DDT. Cuyahoga River. Love Canal. Times Beach. Cancer Clusters. Enjoy your coming apocalypse America.
These are not the actions of a legitimate government.
They do not care about affects people! They just want industry to get to work!
We are instead using that money to disappear people who aren't white. We are building death camps and harming the most vulnerable. We are giving money to billionaires who can't even use the money they have now.
I thought Karoline Leavitt said that her boss wants the cleanest air and cleanest water. I guess those just happen miraculously. My guess is he'll tell us that we do have the cleanest air and cleanest water despite pollution and toxic dumping.
Yay more unbreathable smoggy air, toxic water, and cancer from everyday living! Thanks Lee Zeldin!
More like forced to not to.
Do you need the top 1% dentist to spell out d-r-i-l-l b-a-b-y d-r-i-l-l?..
If every researcher, lawyer, accountant, firefighter, parks employee, social worker, teacher, administrator, etc., fired by this administration started writing, videotaping & taking action & encouraged others to take action we’d have a whirlwind at our backs.
Setting civilization back decades. Shameful!!
This is a crime against all Americans
I really believe this should be considered a crime against humanity.
One of the things that teach-in leaders will address today at our event in Oakland, CA.
It’s the cruelty for me. Being a federal employee during this has been traumatic. “Trump’s EPA clearly doesn’t care about scientific research or protecting human health and the environment any more than they care for the scientists who have dedicated their lives to serving the American people,””
At least they finally know, I guess. *sigh*. It’s all so heartbreaking.
I am so, so sorry. You deserve so much better than this treatment.
Thanks, I appreciate that. USFS research might survive according to the recent house proposal but it’s definitely not a sure thing. In the meantime lots of folks (myself included) are applying to other things and I doubt positions will get backfilled. All of this is a huge loss to agency science.
destruction of all our services is the Heritage goal!!
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This administration is against everything that I am for.
The prick heading the EPA should be tried for crimes against humanity and when convicted forced to spend the rest of his life in an abandoned coal mine with no light.
Didn't he sue the EPA a few times? He probably lost in court because of the science. It makes sense (in evil MAGA LAND) that he's making sure it doesn't exist the next time he sues them.
Without a research arm to support its regulatory arm, Americans will get sicker, and preventable deaths will go up. The EPA was started by (Republican!) President Richard Nixon in 1970. Some of its first regulations were to ban DDT and leaded gasoline, as well as the Clean Air and Water Acts.
Meanwhile, this adds to the thousands of out-of-work scientists in the US, public servants who have quietly served our nation for decades, saving lives and protecting our rights and freedom without pomp and circumstance, parades or holidays.
This is a good time to learn about your state-level EPA equivalent (in Maine, it’s the Department of Environmental Protection). In the absence of strong national leadership, state and local scales become critical. Work with local groups on strengthening state regulations.
In many red states, state, environmental agencies are only doing things because it’s mandated by the EPA. Without EPA oversight, many states will have lackluster environmental protections. :(
That’s true, the environment can be a cross-cutting issue (people who like fishing care about clean water, for example, and duck hunters have been instrumental in wetland protection). Montana has a clean environment clause in their constitution, and Texas has the fastest growth in wind energy.
Work with advocacy groups to bring lawsuits against polluters. Name, shame, and boycott polluters; undermine their social license to operate. Work with your state legislature to have the right to a clean environment enshrined in your state constitution, enabling lawsuits against them when they fail.
We’re in it for the long-haul, babes. Focusing on electoral politics every four years isn’t enough. Protests are important but they have to be promises (as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says). If the environment is your thing, get local. Find an existing group and a friendly legislator and pitch in.
To be fair, I feel sorry for everyone losing their jobs, but having Trump's EPA hire new Heritage Foundation "scientists" to make up fake studies would be worse than no studies at all.
One of the reasons I became a researcher is because it is how we know what is causing a problem and the best way to address it before it becomes a disaster. Eliminating environmental R & D means we will drive blindly into environmental catastrophe.
That little bastard's Karma will not be kind.
EPA doing research is required by statute! uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
This will let corps use red states as dumping grounds for toxic wastes, as the states take over regulation. Trump really has it in for them. And they still approve of him.
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Trump is systematically dismantling the government.
We chose to, via our votes, since the agency was created by Richard Nixon (under duress--he doesn't get credit for it). The general sense is that this was a costly invitation to layers of regulation, but the science is actually a significant net positive in innovation, quality of life, and lifespan.
Lee Zeldin is a tool that will be counted among the guilty. His children will be ashamed of their father.
oh my fk
When I first started working on Daphnia locomotion and development, it was EPA monographs I read to help me build my lab protocols for using them as indicator species. This is a huge blow to human health and well-being.
Not “ we” Rather , the Fascist Coup Regime 🤬🤬
Everything the current administration does reflects the immature spite of its childish members. Instead of Revenge of the Nerds it’s Revenge of the Overaged, Petty Juvenile Delinquents.
Another absolutely asinine action from the dumbest group of clowns to ever run a government!
What is clearer than ever, though, is that the UN is only as effective as its member states. America scraps all climate change and clean energy initiatives & the UN says nothing. This is what we need to change - a new global system that mandates action & holds inaction to account.
Zeldin boasted cutting $750m in staff costs, but that is pennies compared to the billions spent rebuilding after climate disasters (Texas floods circa $20b), let alone the cost of lives lost. It's truly sickening.
Zeldin is essentially cleaning out the EPA and silencing climate science to give Chris Wright and US Energy a clear run at unleashing gas, oil, and coal energy, accelerating global warming. Big Oil wins, people and the planet lose. This is corruption on a planetary scale.
Um, not 'we'. Republicans are choosing not to do so. Vote 'em out!
“We” are the US. “We” have a responsibility to work for a better future. “We” are not off the hook, and as I say in the thread, it’s going to take more than voting.
Oh yeah definitely.
Ecocide to Genocide Gotta get off this road stat
Fuckers. Of course, they have access to clean air and water, and live nowhere near toxic chemicals.
We are literally all going to be sick over this 😭
Out fing rageous 😡
Trumps EPA. For the sake of history accuracy and sanity I wish the damn media would write the regime name before the agency. Because we really need to be clear.
I hate all of these assholes!
Millionaires & billionaires walking around wearing respirators & importing all their food & water from clean countries.
Make CFCs great again. /s
Sure, "merica" will be great...greatly ignorant, uneducated, no research=no innovation. Lead with that, I guess? They think."the people" are corporations, and the people who are major stockholder, owners, ct levels and people who make 250k per year. " Those are their "people"
The scientists working on IRIS (saving us from various toxins) are doing some of the most complex and innovative work in evidence synthesis on our behalf. This is a terrible loss.
It’s probably due to the fact that it doesn’t affect rich people. Who does that cause issues for? The people and places that the industries dump in….. oh that’s right the poor and middle class. Industries and the rich save money and everyone else gets dumped on.
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What could possibly go wrong??!!! 😡
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And it will take how many years to rebuild the division?
“We” are not choosing to. Those morons in what I laughingly refer to as Congress are choosing to.
We are so on the wrong track. Who would vote for this?
MAGA: The wealthy have suffered enough! It’s time for the environment to suffer for once! 😁😁😁
I’m thinking they just want us beholden to what we do get!! This is such bs
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