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SWBTATTReg

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Tue Jan 28, 2025, 04:13 PM Jan 28

tRUMP stopping all payments ... [View all]

I've been watching the ongoing work in Calif. by the EPA to clean up some of the sites in the Palisades burn area (which is going to take a long, long time to clean up all of it), and I hope that this activity isn't stopped.

I feel for these people in Calif. They have lost the majority of everything they have, their homes, belongings, etc. and for tRUMP to be a hypocrite to Governor Galvin and say that those Calif. efforts will continue stinks, if these Calif. efforts are stopped. I would suspect that leaving all of this untouched and not handled would cause even more issues, e.g., toxic substances released by the burning fumes etc., all free to freely mingle into the surrounding environment.

I imagine that funding has already been approved and provided by prior administrations, so tRUMP slowing down these sorts of expenditures should not be allowed since the expenditures were already ID'ed and approved. Perhaps the states have already gotten their funds already for EPA issues previously ID'ed, and funds for new ones under emergency decrees that have come up (the Pacific Palisades, for example).

Perhaps Calif. has its own Superfund to clean up environmental messes, I know that Gov. Galvin had moved to set up funds for use when tRUMP came into power, so...

In any event, I hope that they get this giant and tragic mess handled w/ care and speed. This is a massive tragedy to not be played w/ via the political arena.

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