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Top EPA official resigns over direction of agency under Trump
The Hill ^
| 08/01/17 04:02 PM EDT
| JACQUELINE THOMSEN
Posted on 08/01/2017 5:11:45 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
A top Environmental Protection Agency official resigned Tuesday in protest of the direction the EPA has taken under President Trump.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency with a scathing exit letter in which she claimed that “the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth.” She last worked as the director of science and technology in the Office of Water.
“The truth is there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities,” Southerland wrote, directly rejecting many of Trump’s claims.
Southerland said that since EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took over the agency, dozens of regulations designed to protect the environment had been repealed, and Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the agency would devastate its ability to enforce existing protections and create new ones.
She took aim in particular at Trump's demand that two federal regulations be struck from the books for every new one added.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; epa; fakescience; good; maga; trumpepa; winning
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To: COBOL2Java
Sounds like she was about to get caught.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:12:48 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
To: COBOL2Java
Is she as hot as the Lois Lerner?
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:13:02 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: COBOL2Java
To: COBOL2Java
One parasite down, millions to go.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:13:58 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: COBOL2Java
To: DIRTYSECRET
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:14:11 PM PDT
by
acapesket
(all happy now?)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:14:28 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: COBOL2Java
“A top Environmental Protection Agency official resigned Tuesday in protest of the direction the EPA has taken under President Trump. Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency ....”
#winning
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:14:55 PM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
To: COBOL2Java
Draining the swamp. We need to get rid of more creatures like her.
To: COBOL2Java
Let me guess, she retired.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:15:08 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: DIRTYSECRET
pelosi with out the face work.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:15:38 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(:-p)
To: COBOL2Java
WINNING!!!
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:16:30 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: COBOL2Java
Top EPA official
elects to retire resigns over direction of agency under Trump
There. Fixed it.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:17:15 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: COBOL2Java
Good. Fewer idiots in the EPA.
Only a few thousand to go.
To: DIRTYSECRET
Is she as hot as the Lois Lerner?
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:18:48 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
To: COBOL2Java
Don’t let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha baby.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:18:57 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: Da Coyote
She didn’t resign...she retired to a PLUSH federal pension no doubt.
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:19:27 PM PDT
by
resistance
(abandon all hope and rational thought, become a democrat)
To: COBOL2Java
Any bets her retirement won’t suck?
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posted on
08/01/2017 5:20:08 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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