Former EPA staff like what they see in new administrator

[DonViejo]

Nearly 1,000 people left the agency after 2016, according to the fiscal 2022 budget proposal by the Biden White House

By Joseph Morton
Posted April 15, 2021 at 6:30am

Career employees departed the EPA at a fast clip during the Trump administration, but interviews with some of those who left during the Republican’s presidency indicated they are happy with how things look so far under new administrator Michael Regan.

Nearly 1,000 people left the agency after 2016, according to the fiscal 2022 budget proposal by the Biden White House. And the Union of Concerned Scientists has estimated that more than 670 of those departures were of scientific experts.

Although age drove many of the departures, there was also a sense that such experts were being shut out of the policymaking process, say many of those now-former EPA career staff. And that leaves Regan, the former North Carolina environmental regulator who was sworn in March 11 as President Joe Biden’s EPA administrator, with serious morale-boosting to do.

“The morale was so low because there was political interference in the scientific work,” said Betsy Southerland, who retired in August 2017 after more than three decades with the EPA. “It’s the combination of both the clear view that there were strictly political decisions being made rather than public health decisions being made and then, secondly, being unable to influence or modify that in any respect because you literally did not have a seat at the table.”

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. We can't let our guard down.....

there's this big white building that's filled with people that want to vote against ANYTHING that has to do with positive EPA goals.

Go, Joe!!!!!!