On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency set up 139 employees who signed.Declaration of the opposition“On its policies, accusing them of” undermining illegal ” Trump administrationAgenda.
In a letter announced on Monday, the employees wrote that the agency no longer amounting to its mission to protect human health and the environment. The letter represented rare general criticism from the agency’s employees who knew that they might face a reaction to speak publicly against weakening funding and federal support for climate, environment and health sciences.
In a statement on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it has “a policy that carries zero for job bureaucrats who illegally undermine the Trump administration agenda.
The employees were notified that they had been placed in a “temporary, unpaid, paid” case for the next two, pending an “administrative investigation”, according to a copy of the Email obtained by the Associated Press. “It is important to understand that this is not a disciplinary action,” says email.
More than 170 Environmental Protection Agency employees put their names on the document, with about 100 signatures more than the inherent for fear of revenge, according to Jeremy Berg, the former editor of the Science Magazine and not an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency but he was among the non -academics scientists or academics as well.
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Scientists in national institutes health He took a similar step earlier in June, but Berg said he was not aware of anyone at the National Institutes of Health, which was placed on a similar administrative leave.
Under the official Lee Zilden, the Environmental Protection Agency has reduced funding for environmental improvements in minority societies, and pledged to decline in federal regulations less than air pollution in national gardens and tribal reservations, proposed to retract a ban on a type of asbestos and proposed natural gas.
Zeldin has begun to reorganize the Environmental Protection Research and Development Office as part of its push to reduce its budget and suffer from its study of climate change and environmental justice. It also seeks to decline in the rules of pollution estimated for the AP exam that was found to provide 30,000 people and 275 billion dollars every year.
The Environmental Protection Agency responded to the employee mission earlier this week by saying politics decisions, “It is a result of an operation in which the official is informed of the latest research and science by professional professionals in the Environmental Protection Agency, and the vast majority who are prominent professionals who are proud of the work that this agency is doing day after day.”
