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Eugene

(63,544 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2025, 03:14 PM Feb 8

Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water

Source: Chicago Tribune

Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in US and Canada

Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune
Fri, February 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM EST·5 min read

CHICAGO — For more than two years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended when a train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals.

Vice President JD Vance, a former Ohio U.S. senator, visited the East Palestine accident site this week and vowed the EPA would finish the cleanup.

At the same time, the Trump/Vance administration is moving to fire or force out more than 20% of the agency’s Chicago staff, including officials who enforce clean air and water laws and others dedicated to helping poor communities disproportionately harmed by pollution in the Midwest.

The disconnect highlights how Trump, his aides and fellow Republicans in Congress repeatedly attempt to gut environmental protections while promising to guarantee Americans have clean air and water.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-musk-move-oust-epa-172100200.html


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Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water (Original Post) Eugene Feb 8 OP
Hey ya little peons, get it yet? underpants Feb 8 #1
Donald Trump does not want People to know this about your Water you Drink from the Tap Oneear Feb 8 #2
Outright lies from the Vice President of America. Brenda Feb 8 #3
Good Grief! Rhiannon12866 Feb 10 #4

underpants

(189,189 posts)
1. Hey ya little peons, get it yet?
Sat Feb 8, 2025, 03:31 PM
Feb 8

The last two paragraphs

Back in East Palestine, Ohio, Vance this week blamed Democrats for failing to enact legislation intended to prevent more disastrous trail derailments.

Several Republican senators opposed the bill, as did most of their colleagues in the Republican-controlled House.

Oneear

(431 posts)
2. Donald Trump does not want People to know this about your Water you Drink from the Tap
Sat Feb 8, 2025, 03:33 PM
Feb 8

Water is Life. Clean Water is a Basic Human Right. Most Towns' Water Systems are made up of this type of Water Pipe: galvanized, Dipped in Zinc EPA.org lead. Yes, these are Lead Pipes. The States have Grants to start the removal of Lead Pipes and could get help with low-interest loans to make your town healthy again by removing the lead pipes. Remember, last time I checked, the EPA did not have a Head or a deputy for Clean Water in America.

Brenda

(1,488 posts)
3. Outright lies from the Vice President of America.
Sat Feb 8, 2025, 04:07 PM
Feb 8

His administration is right now threatening to severely cut the EPA's workforce and budget.

They are all fucking liars and hypocrites and somehow the drug addled or just plain stupid followers of Chump's Cult have gone along with it up to now.

Musk and Chump think they've won by ousting all Democrats and liberals and woke folk.

But now dimwits gonna find out that because of those purges the only people to blame for inflation, job losses, disappearance of government services and recovery efforts and recession - are THEM.

MAGA gonna get woke by the economic disaster heading our way.


Rhiannon12866

(229,650 posts)
4. Good Grief!
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 05:54 AM
Feb 10

He's putting the health of Americans in jeopardy - not to mention his nomination of RFK Jr. in charge of the nation's health services.

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