Post AwI9ck7I5DatDoCDKK by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AwI8BYPVOmKp8uBfxg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:41:07Z
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#GiftArticlePure idiocy#EPA Says It Will Eliminate Its #Scientific #Research ArmThe decision comes after a #SCOTUS ruling allowing the #Trump admin to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies.#science #Climate #ClimateCrisis #idiocracy #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.l81V.O4DgmQBqHXzk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AwI8XNOZ28VjLn9Wq0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:45:04Z
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The Environmental *Protection* Agency said Friday that it would eliminate its #scientific #research arm & begin #firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists & other #scientists, after denying for months that it would do so.The move underscores how #Trump is forging ahead w/efforts to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies after #SCOTUS allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Govt scientists have been particular targets of the admin’s #MassLayoffs.
(DIR) Post #AwI8lSgq90qppHPx1k by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:47:37Z
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…The #EPA’s #science office provides the independent #research that underpins nearly all of the agency’s policies & #regulations. It has analyzed the risks of hazardous chemicals, the impact of #wildfire smoke on #PublicHealth & the contamination of drinking water by hydraulic fracturing, or #fracking. Its research has often justified stricter environmental rules, prompting pushback from chemical manufacturers & other industries.#Trump #ClimateCrisis #idiocracy #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain
(DIR) Post #AwI9B4IdRx3Fi4J2lk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:52:15Z
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…The American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a #union that represents more than 8,000 #EPA workers, slammed Friday’s announcement.The #science office “is the heart & brain of the EPA,” said Justin Chen, president of #AFGE Council 238. “Without it, we don’t have the means to assess impacts upon human #health & the #environment. Its destruction will devastate #PublicHealth in our country.”#Trump #Climate #ClimateCrisis #research #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #AwI9SLMvExqlZVY5dw by donray@mastodon.online
2025-07-19T12:55:20Z
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@Nonilex This move seems to mesh with the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling which basically said that we don’t need no stinking experts involved in running the government. Just ideologues (including Supreme Court Justices™️) who can magically bend reality to fit their fanatical belief system.
(DIR) Post #AwI9TTwSqnsCS0iSlE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:55:34Z
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In a wave of departures in recent weeks, the directors of national #research programs under the Office of Research & Development all left the #EPA. They include career employees who oversaw work on measuring contaminants in the atmosphere, responses to environmental emergencies & exposure to chemicals & particulate matter. Others who left include the deputies of those programs, as well as dozens of senior #scientists, acc/to multiple agency ofcls.#Trump #science #Climate #PublicHealth #law
(DIR) Post #AwI9ck7I5DatDoCDKK by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:57:13Z
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“It is dismantling a world-class organization, & the American people are not going to be well served by this,” said Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who worked at the #EPA for 40 years & led the #research office under the first #Trump admin. “These actions are very shortsighted, & the way they’re going about it is very callous & very cruel.”#science #Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #AwI9rcdQBN8EMSJtPk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T12:59:56Z
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When #Trump took office, the #EPA had 16,155 employees. But >3,700 employees have left the agency or are set to leave through firings, retirements, resignations & other moves, eventually bringing the agency’s work force to 12,448, a level last seen during the Reagan admin.Trump previously announced that it would move some of the #science functions into a *new department* in the EPA administrator’s office. Dr. Orme-Zavaleta & others said that move threatened to politicize #scientific #research.
(DIR) Post #AwIA3WGDhv504D8mi8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-19T13:02:05Z
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The #HeritageFoundation, a *conservative* research organization, had criticized the #EPA’s #science office in #Project2025, a blueprint for overhauling the federal government. The group had accused the office of being “bloated, unaccountable, closed, outcome-driven, hostile to public & legislative input, & inclined to pursue political rather than purely scientific goals.” [total bullshit]#Trump #Climate #ClimateCrisis #research #PublicHealth #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #AwIA85RgpfPMLjgRNY by vicarvernon@mastodon.me.uk
2025-07-19T13:02:53Z
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@Nonilex you would think a potential employer would want a fit and healthy workforce? It seems not though.
(DIR) Post #AwIVQuKkT73SQTFiNc by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-07-19T17:01:34Z
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@Nonilex Wonder if shutting down EPA's scientific arm was part of the half billion or so Big Oil paid to put Trump in the White House, or whether Stephen Miller through it in for free.
(DIR) Post #AwJA0z5GHUM1kYlYYK by f800gecko@mastodon.online
2025-07-20T00:35:33Z
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@Nonilex Truth is their greatest enemy.