Here's How Many People Have Left the EPA Since Scott Pruitt Took Over [Winning!]

Townhall.com ^ | 12/16/2017 | Courtney O'Brien

[Simon Foxx]

The Environmental Protection Agency has shrunk considerably since Scott Pruitt took over as administrator. In fact, the agency is back to President Reagan-era staff levels.

Over 700 EPA personnel have either retired, quit, or taken voluntary buyouts since Pruitt took over...

[Kaslin]

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The Environmental Protection Agency has shrunk considerably since Scott Pruitt took over as administrator. In fact, the agency is back to President Reagan-era staff levels.

Over 700 EPA personnel have either retired, quit, or taken voluntary buyouts since Pruitt took over, Think Progress found after combing through federal employment statistics. Some are quitting in "disgust."

“There has been a drop of employees of 770 between April and December. While several hundred of those are buyouts, the rest of those are either people that are retiring or quitting in disgust,” Kyla Bennett, director of New England Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), told ThinkProgress. “Is that number higher than it would normally be? I think it is.”

Liberals were outraged over Pruitt's nomination last year, labeling him a "climate skeptic" and criticizing his ties to the fossil fuel industry. 

"Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the US Environmental Protection Agency is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires," Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said of the nomination.

Famous environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio brought his concerns straight to President-elect Trump at Trump Tower, where he and activist Terry Tamminen reportedly prepared a presentation explaining how preserving the environment has a positive effect on the economy.

Pruitt has been credited with influencing Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. He has also targeted the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and Clean Water Rule. Rolling Stone Magazine accused Pruitt of "quietly tearing down decades of environmental progress."

[Nifster]

Yip yip yahoo

[hal ogen]

Hahahaaaa. I love it when parasitic govt employees leave. Hahahaaaa. Winning! Merry Christmas! !!

[eartick]

“Unfortunately it’s just a drop in the bucket.” Provide numbers.

Yeah, correct. Like what percentage of the EPA does this represent? Now we can see what IMPACT it made.

[AndyJackson]

What you don’t see reported is that there are at least the same number of support service contractor augmentees to the federal staff whose valuable services the EPA is also doing without. This is where over half of the scandal in these bloated bureaucracies resides.

[Nifster]

Yes indeed

[Redleg Duke]

We can count on you to always find the cloud attached to the silver lining.

Merry Christmas, Boo-Bird!

[Qiviut]

EPA has been running amuck for a long time and Pruitt is cleaning up a very large mess .... here’s just one “small” one:

EPA Ends $1 Million Taxpayer-Funded Gym Membership Program
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt identified the gym memberships as an abuse of taxpayer dollars
http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-ends-1-million-taxpayer-funded-gym-membership-program/

[Scooter100]

Google search shows the EPA has 15,376 (2016) employees with an Annual budget $8,139,887,000 (2016).

700 is, in fact, just a start, we've got 7 years to go, right?

[poconopundit]

I recommend the remaining EPA employees be sent on "field investigation" missions to place like Alaska or Montana.

The winter is an excellent time of year to begin. They can watch with binoculars from unheated forest huts the migration of bald eagles and their increasing numbers now that the Interior Department is under new management.

EPA work requires field knowledge. There's no way the department's employees should be bound to desk jobs in heated/air conditioned offices. That insults their great passion for sustainable natural life in the great wild.

Let them out in the wilderness they love. No computers or cell phones either because those devices harm the environment. Give them Henry David Thoreau's book Walden to read.

Here's the pic of an ex-Washington EPA department head enjoying the bountiful benefits of life in the forest.

[House Atreides]

So when will the INVOLUNTARY reductions in force begin?

[Chickensoup]

Seven hundred out of how many tens of thousands?

[Chickensoup]

Good start! However, that leaves 15408 - 700 = 14708 to go...

Actually it leave over 159K people left.

[poconopundit]

Charge of the EPA Brigade

While Tsetse fly and environmental hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Pruitt Death,
Back from the mouth of Trump Hell,
All that was left of them,
    Left of seven hundred.
When can their glory fade ?
O the wild global warming charge they made!
    All the world wonder’d.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the EPA Brigade,
    Noble seven hundred!

Tennyson

[SuperLuminal]

"Actually it leave over 159K people left."

Yep! I do love the BIG picture better...{:-)

[Passaic]

great, now he has to get rid of OSHA and these other alphabet agencies.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

[700 fewer enviro-wackos in the government gravy train.]

The very notion of draining a swamp is offensive to the enviro-wackos. Ancient Rome and Paris should have remained swamps. And our own capital. To heck with civilization.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I forgot to add Saint Petersburg and much of the Yellow River valley.

[Rapscallion]

Over 700 EPA personnel have either retired, quit, or taken voluntary buyouts since Pruitt took over...

This may be a good thing.

[Joe Boucher]

close the damned federal agency the hell down.
This and a hell of a lot of other federal gub mint agencies are worthless drags on society,
just look at what these buggers did to the Animas.