Trump plans to cut EPA staff in half

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Jan. 27, 2017 | JOHN SICILIANO

[PROCON]

President Trump is seeking to slash the number of workers at the Environmental Protection Agency by at least half, leaving it significantly gutted as the administration mulls further cuts, the former head of Trump's EPA transition team said Friday.

"Let's aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we'll want to go further," Myron Ebell said now that he has returned to his position as director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Ebell left the Trump transition team a week ago.

Ebell told the Associated Press that Trump is likely to seek significant reductions in the agency's 15,000-person work force. Slashing half of the work force would leave 7,500 at the agency, which would dramatically reduce its capacity to move out regulations quickly.

[N9841A]

Chain going the wrong way.

[PROCON]

PS Die Sierra Club, Die.

LOL, agree!

[jimmyray]

Yes, but they will move at 1/4 speed

[Panhandle.deporable]

Does this mean we can buy decent lightbulb again?

[thulldud]

Is he keeping the half with the heads or the half with the butts?

How is he going to tell which is which?

[LambSlave]

Cutting them in half is a bit much... well except maybe the global warming nuts. How about we just fire them and call it even?

[DaveA37]

I personally hope he cuts the BLM the same way or better yet, eliminates them completely.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I’d like them to give all federal lands to the states.

[smileyface]

I am hoping that I can soon buy a normal gas can again, instead of those abysmal things that the EPA forced upon us.

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Yes! I spill more gas on my mower because of the gov’t mandated spout! ARg!

[smileyface]

I thought he was this conservative. Tidbits here and there.

[Red in Blue PA]

Love this guy!

I would add a law which states that No EPA agent can carry a gun.

[JayElBee]

Me too. I have spilled more fuel because of these spouts that I fear they will come in and declare my property a hazardous waste site. I want to kick the A$$ of the moron that came up with this ridiculous idea.

[Mean Daddy]

I hope they put back into circulation all the ammo they (we) bought.

[itsahoot]

Does that mean that I’ll now be allowed to collect the rain water that God allowed to fall onto my property?

Not in Oregon, the water belongs to the County.

[spokeshave]

Ha...Trump is the CEO of all the bureaucrats....

Maybe he will st up a Skype call to each and every one that is to be terminated

with the short and sweet message from the boss:

[dp0622]

Is that true?

[dp0622]

Now the EPA is HALF WAY where its employment numbers should be.

Question: What the #### does a govt worker do when they’re let go?

They dont KNOW how to DO anything.

[Paladin2]

AFAIK, every word.

[Paladin2]

I’ll have one of those things in blue....

[HonkyTonkMan]

The EPA really works miracle!

Consider how thd EPA took the gas can spout -- a simple, safe design with years of precedence, and made it a complex, unsafe design that actually increases waste through spillage.