Posted on 06/30/2025 6:26:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees on Monday published a declaration of dissent from the agency’s policies under the Trump administration, saying they “undermine the EPA mission of protecting human health and the environment.”
More than 170 EPA employees put their names to the document, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation, according to Jeremy Berg, a former editor-in-chief of Science magazine who was among non-EPA scientists or academics to also sign. The latter figure includes 20 Nobel laureates.
The letter represents rare public criticism from agency employees who could face blowback for speaking out against a weakening of funding and federal support for climate, environmental and health science. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health made a similar move earlier in June.
“Since the Agency’s founding in 1970, EPA has accomplished (its) mission by leveraging science, funding, and expert staff in service to the American people. Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration’s focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise,” the letter read.
The letter outlines what the EPA employees see as five main concerns: undermining public trust; ignoring scientific consensus to benefit polluters; reversing EPA’s progress in America’s most vulnerable communities; dismantling the Office of Research and Development; and promoting a culture of fear, forcing staff to choose between their livelihood and well-being.
“People are going to die,” said Carol Greider, a Nobel laureate and professor, who also signed the letter. She described last week’s East Coast heat wave as evidence of the ways people are feeling the effects of climate change. “And if we don’t have scientists at the EPA to understand how what we do that goes into the air affects our health, more people are going to die,” she added.
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I’m sure Zeldin has the list to make it easy to know who to fire.
“More than 170 EPA employees put their names to the document”
…great! They just signed their own pink slip
The fact that they wrote this letter shows that they are POLITICAL ACTIVISTS and have no interest in simply doing the job that they’re paid to do.
“People are going to die,” said Carol Greider
“People are dying from high taxes to pay your salary”
These drama queens need to be fired immediately and the EPA needs to be dissolved.
100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation,
Brave Sir Robins bravely signed
It’s a “declaration of keep us in the gravy”
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE——
MOST OF US FOR REASONS THE EPA CANNOT CONTROL NO MATTER HOW MANY “EMPLOYEES” OR HOW MUCH $$$$$$$ THEY WASTE
WHEN THESE IDIOTS TELL US THAT “THEY” CONTROL THE WATER THAT RUNS OFF MY ROOF WHEN IT RAINS”, THEY DEMONSTRATE THEIR COMPLETE ATTITUDE OF CONTROL ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE.
THE EPA THINKS THEY CONTROL THAT WATER-—TELLS ME I CANNOT CATCH IT IN BARRELS & USE IT FOR MY GARDEN.....THAT IS NUTS
BUT THEN FEMA CANNOT SHOW UP FOR HURRICANES.....
WHAT A FEDERAL MARRIAGE OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS AMERICANS !
Great. Fire them all.
Reminds me of the 51 Intelligence “experts” letter on Hunter’s laptop. Just another Leftist political action to try to cause problems for Trump and the US
Tired of the costly fearmongering that empowers these petty tyrants. Fire them all olus ten times more . . . for starters.
Every state has their own EPA just eliminate the federal EPA entirely.
Bkmk
What did they do, put X's on the paper?
” She described last week’s East Coast heat wave as evidence of the ways people are feeling the effects of climate change.”
I still can’t believe the mentality of these people. They really believe they’re heroes saving humanity. I want clean air and water as much as the next person but the EPA has destroyed so many lives just because they could. Mud puddle wetlands indeed!
"Chutzpah"
They’re so blind and un-self aware. It reminds me of the media who think we don’t notice when they all use precisely the same phrasing for whatever Trump’s latest abomination is. This simpleton has no idea that the trite phraseology “People are going to die” causes the hearer to stop listening right there
Their descent was from the policies of the agency, that would mean they align with Trumps ideas of globul warming is BS.
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