At his cabinet meeting, Trump revealed plans to cut EPA by 65%. It's no surprise that corporate polluters close to Trump want him to gut EPA, but this is the first time Trump has publicly said he plans to do it. Here's what it means for all of us and how we stop it... x.com/EricLDaugh/s... - ThreadSky

jeremysymons.bsky.social • 2 days ago

At his cabinet meeting, Trump revealed plans to cut EPA by 65%. It's no surprise that corporate polluters close to Trump want him to gut EPA, but this is the first time Trump has publicly said he plans to do it. Here's what it means for all of us and how we stop it...
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1894795181318123979

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katyhadalittlefarm.bsky.social•2 days ago

I want this info but I'm not going to X.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you want to give money to someone fighting this, consider Environmental Protection Network or any other group fighting this insanity. EPN is a network of hundreds of former EPA staff who volunteer their time to make sure the public knows the facts. https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/donate/

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Speak Up! Most people get their news from people they know, on social media or otherwise. They aren't hearing about this. Let them know!

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

So what do WE do? If this pisses you off, as it should, let your members of congress know. The Trump Administration’s attacks on EPA are an unlawful overreach of presidential authority. EPA is funded by bipartisan appropriations bills. This is Congress' constitutional role. They are failing.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

America’s bedrock environmental laws cannot be undone without congressional approval, which is why the Trump administration is instead focused on firing the people that put the laws into action.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is why they are doing it: "We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”
https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/20241030_vought-video-leak/

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

Despite having to deal with an ever-increasing array of environmental threats, EPA’s has fewer staff today than it had under President George W Bush. Gutting EPA will cost taxpayers more than they save by shutting down essential services that will have to be replaced.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here's a map on where EPA is putting people to work across the country replacing lead pipes, cleaning up toxic contamination, and building clean water projects.
https://www.epa.gov/invest/investments-epa-under-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-and-inflation-reduction-act

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

EPA works cooperatively with ALL STATES and provides them $$ for clean water infrastructure, sewage projects, and environmental enforcement. The reason we have federal environmental laws is because everyone has a right to clean air and clean water. Without EPA, expect states to race to the bottom.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

EPA protects people’s health by enforcing America’s environmental laws and setting science-based pollution standards for clean air and clean water. Without adequate EPA on the job, the air we breathe and the water we drink will be at greater risk from toxic pollution.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

The public did not sign up for this. According to a nationwide poll conducted in the week after the election, 76% of Trump voters and 86% of all voters oppose attempts to weaken the EPA. https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/post-election-voter-poll-voters-overwhelmingly-support-a-strong-epa-to-protect-public-health/

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

The assault on EPA is not about reducing spending. EPA’s budget accounts for less than half of a penny of every dollar of federal spending. EPA staff and funding help every state in the nation, holding polluters accountable and building clean water projects.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

3/The Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act are American success stories that have cut pollution dramatically while growing our economy. The suffering and medical bills that these laws have prevented are enormous due to fewer asthma attacks, hospital visits, heart & lung disease, ....

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

2/This would bring EPA to the lowest staffing level since EPA was created in 1970, when the skies were dark with smog, and toxic rivers caught fire. Let's be honest, EPA at these levels would not be able to get anything done, which is exactly what they want.

jeremysymons.bsky.social•2 days ago

1/ This would throw the doors wide open for corporate polluters to freely dump toxic chemicals in the air our children breathe and the water we all drink.

pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social•2 days ago

New players to the game. Let the destruction begin.

rocketmansparty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here's my crib notes on Trump's tech rats at the EPA:

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