Posted on 03/09/2017 9:52:56 AM PST by rktman
The head of the EPA’s environmental justice program resigned Thursday over concerns President Donald Trump might slash funding for the 24-year-old project.
Mustafa Ali, a former senior to the administrator responsible for directing the agency’s actions protecting minority communities, stepped down in a letter to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. He also voiced concern the Pruitt plans on gutting the project.
“I wonder if our new leadership has had the opportunity to converse with those who need our help the most,” Ali wrote in the memo. “I strongly encourage you and your team to continue promoting agency efforts to validate these community’s concerns, and value their lives.”
Ali, who helped found the program in 1992, leaves as Democrats and activists continue to bicker about the agency’s reduced impact during the Trump-era.
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Does this mean we’re all gonna die?
not if you take your vitamins and drink your ovaltine
EPA is for Environmental Protection, not Muslim outreach. Useless department, useless individual. See ‘ya.
Yep...don’t let the door hit ya!!!
The feds have no constitutional right or authority to meddle in or interfere with the environment or environmental issues. Those issues legally belong to the states.
Just win, baby.
An opportunity to eliminate an unnecessary bureaucracy. A reading of the establishing statute is needed and if there are agencies, etc., that don’t contribute to the desired outcome in the statute, they need to be curtailed or eliminated (if not the whole agency).
Good riddance. “Environmental justice” is a nonsense phrase and government has no place trying to accomplish whatever that happens to mean at the moment.
Another win.
A a resignation means no unemployment.
WTF is the "Environmental Justice" division? And I sure hope he is right that it was going to be gutted; hopefully, with a dull rusty knife.
environmental justice????...............Another Obozo sinecure creation......................
Management................
Last three sentences sums it up best:
Ali will become the senior vice president for the Hip Hop Caucus, a nonprofit group that promotes activism for young voters through music and culture.
He is scheduled to speak Thursday at an environmental conference in Flint, perhaps to quell concerns the agency refused to take the tainted water scandal seriously.
“What I’m hoping to do is highlight that environmental justice needs to continue to happen,” Ali said, “that there are opportunities to make it happen, and that if we don’t do it there will be huge public health impacts.”
bttt
Actually, global warming would BENEFIT the people of color. They have tropical ancestry and are more comfortable with warm weather. White people, on the other hand, have temperate to polar ancestry and can handle cold better.
Total bs
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