Inside the mass exodus at the EPA

nypost.com ^ | Yaron Steinbuch

[Stevenc131]

[SuperLuminal]

Awesome start!

[PGR88]

Its like throwing holy water on person possessed by demons.

[wiggen]

while i’m certain some did leave because of the stated reasons i have to say its not normal to leave a good job based on principle. How much demand in the private sector for 96 climate scientists if the government isn’t picking up the tab?

[shotgun]

Good luck on the unemployment line.

[DIRTYSECRET]

DID THEY REALLY care about the environment? Not enough to stay and fight. Their retirement is good enough for them to not care.

[Cowboy Bob]

Only 700?

[2banana]

environmental protection specialists = highly paid government employee with no real job

[jimmygrace]

... Pornhub was the hardest hit...

[brianr10]

The only people who leave govt. jobs are still young enough to start over, or else ready for retirement.

[ConservativeMind]

If I were in charge there, I would start imposing a ton of infuriating rules and policies on all employees. I would let the computers go nuts and impose “unsatisfactory” performance reviews on all of them for not showing positive work progress. I would pull an “Illinois” and make EPA employees pay for all travel and work expenses on their own dime, then submit expense reports that don’t get paid for a half year or more, apologizing by saying the computers don’t work right.

I would make their lives a living hell.

[mountainlion]

I did not realize the epa had a job description of “scientist”

[faithhopecharity]

As is often the case, a plausible dogood idea has been largely ruined and made into a tyrannical and grossly expensive huge program - a blight on America and a very costly damper on jobs and our economy. It definitely needs to be scaled back a lot ! And then properly focused or eliminated entirely if it can’t be correctly managed

[shotgun]

They’ll catch on at some state equivalent Dept of Ecology or county environmental permitting agency, all at less than 1/2 their current salary.

[Jumper]

I worked for the US EPA for about 100 days back in 1995 when the Dem's shut down the govt and they dismissed lots of employees.... The Office of Air Quality Management in Durham, NC was staffed with people who had joined the agency for the most part in the early 70s. They were kinda an office family group of people and took their jobs very seriously. There was a serious of maps of the US and regionally with different colored pins representing Air Quality or coded by color for bad and worst.

The EPA at that time felt that Private Corporations and Businesses for the most part managed themselves within the laws and there was very little need for government oversight since most companies had updated their production facilities/smoke stacks and emissions were down.

One of the primary reasons the Govt was shut down in 1995 was because Clinton lied to the Republicans and stood up a new EPA Agency in DC of about 1000 personnel - thus the EPA during the shutdown had to shed 1000 employees to offset the new "stove-pipe" directorate.

[Grampa Dave]

More than 700 workers have left the rapidly shrinking Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office — including more than 200 scientists, according to a report.

A small but good start at ending this anti American/good Science, monster.

[Rusty0604]

The agency’s budget is being cut, another reason.

[gibsonguy]

“96 environmental protection specialists”

https://youtu.be/YMgtjYv7zIo

[ConfidentConservative]

CAN NOT BE HAPPIER!!!

We nearly lost our ability to build on our 1 acre lot because of the possibility... no evidence what so ever... of “future”
water contamination in our wells. heh

NEVER HAPPENED

Collusion with a builder. They were offering a “discount” on a city lot IF we signed an agreement not to build. They were also trying to pass a LAW to prevent us from building.

I am sure there are lots of people with similar stories.