Trump allies begin attack on EPA and rules protecting US drinking water
Source: The Guardian
Mon 2 Dec 2024 07.00 EST
Donald Trump’s allies have fired the opening salvoes of his coming administration’s attack on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency that enforces and regulates laws on air, soil, and water quality among other crucial environmental and health issues.
In a letter from Republican House leadership to EPA the administrator, Michael Regan, Republicans trained their sites on the agency’s scientific integrity policies that are designed to insulate scientists and research from political interference. Meanwhile, the incoming chair of the Senate environmental committee in a hearing last week promised to target portions of new PFAS regulations put in place over the last year, a top priority for Trump’s chemical and water utility industry allies.
The Republican House committee on oversight and accountability chair, James Comer, charged in his letter that scientific integrity policies would be used by EPA scientists to “hamstring the incoming Trump administration’s ability to implement their own executive agendas”.
The Republicans promptly moving to shred the integrity policies – which critics say were weak to begin with – demonstrates how party officials are “bending over backwards” to assist Trump in attacking career servants, said Jeff Ruch, a former EPA official now with the Public Employees Environmental Responsibility non-profit. “They want to clear out all potential obstacles,” Ruch said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/02/trump-allies-attack-epa-drinking-water-rules
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I want my water spiked with as many PCBs and PFAS (forever chemicals), hexavalent chromium (see Brockovich, Erin), motor oil, gasoline, and any other carcinogen you can think of! Yummy!!!
Fuckin’ wankers.
