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Trump plans to cut EPA staff in half
washingtonexaminer.com ^
| Jan. 27, 2017
| JOHN SICILIANO
Posted on 01/27/2017 2:09:53 PM PST by PROCON
![](https://iowaenvironmentalfocus.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/epa.jpg)
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.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; cuts; epa; first100days; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; goodstart; trump; trump45; trumpenvironment; trumpepa; winning
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To: PROCON
Week 2 at the EPA
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:16:06 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(1 Tim 2:1-3)
To: musicman
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:16:10 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Paladin2
Blame it on the Russians...
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:17:06 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: Paladin2
Only the EPA could screw up a river like that.
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:18:16 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:23:53 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Defending the Border isn't a Political Option, it's a Constitutional Obligation ~ Rick Perry)
To: BRL
Inefficient use of space.
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:26:07 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Paladin2
Do that and Trump can say goodbye to the states of Iowa and Wisconsin in 2020. Would not help in Indiana or Ohio either.
To: PROCON
Obama has only been gone a week and he’s already a distant memory. FULL SPEED AHEAD, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:32:18 PM PST
by
silent_jonny
("forward to what lies ahead" -- Phil. 3:13)
To: PROCON
Most of the EPA regulations are political (IMO) and don’t help the environment.
They pander to the loud voices of anti-American Envirowhacko groups and the ACLU which intimidates people to bend to their will.
That has to stop.
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:33:49 PM PST
by
Syncro
(Facts is facts)
To: Syncro
Cutting the gov’t funding of the Left that goes through the EPA is a good place to practice for the other agencies.
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:36:50 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: PapaBear3625
I think Trump already put the kibosh on any new regulations.
And he is working on rescinding the Obama ones that are not in the record yet.
Then onto the thousands of regulations put out over the years that hurt small businesses as well as coal mining and oil/natural gas exploration/production.
Trump needs to open back up the Gulf of Mexico to deep water drilling, as well as close to shore drilling.
He has a lot of work to do.
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:37:53 PM PST
by
Syncro
(Facts is facts)
To: Paladin2
Yes, practice makes perfect...
: > )
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:38:53 PM PST
by
Syncro
(Facts is facts)
To: Navin Johnson
Figure out how to make the ‘Rats responsible...
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:39:48 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: mrsmith
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:42:24 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: PROCON
A cut in half leaves it 100% too large. But its a start.
To: JayElBee
[I am hoping that I can soon buy a normal gas can again, instead of those abysmal things that the EPA forced upon us.]
http://www.nospill.com/
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:45:48 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: PROCON
Good start.
Really be impressed when that half is cut in half.
Then we will really be getting somewhere.
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posted on
01/27/2017 3:48:56 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: PROCON
Start with the cry babies that received counseling.
78
posted on
01/27/2017 3:57:08 PM PST
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: PROCON
Cut them more! Love love love this last week.
PS Die Sierra Club, Die.
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posted on
01/27/2017 4:20:28 PM PST
by
MarMema
To: PROCON
Is he keeping the half with the heads or the half with the butts?
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