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On Monday, a group of more than 170 employees from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a declaration of disagreement with policies under the Trump administration.
Employees said the administration’s policies “damage the EPA mission for human health and environment protection.”
“Since the agency was established in 1970, the EPA has fulfilled this mission by taking advantage of science, funding, and expert staff in the service of the American people. Today, we are focusing on disagreeing with the current administration’s harmful irregularities, misunderstanding and scientific skills.”
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Jeremy Berg, former Editor -in -Chief Science Apart from 170 nominated scientists and experts, there were about 100 other people who signed anonymous signs for retaliation, including 20 Nobel laureates, said the magazine and one of the letter signs.
This letter is a rare humor from EPA employees that may face pressure to criticize federal support for environmental, climate and health science and weakening funds.
“I am really sad. This agency, which was a superhero for me in my youth, is not living in accordance with our views under this administration. And I really want to want us,” said Ammilia Hertzberg, a Environmental Protection expert at EPA, who was kept on administrative leave in February, as the Guardian reported.
The administration is working to close the Hertzberg department at the Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Office. The work done for the department was focused on weak groups of pollution, such as young children, elderly, people living in high pollution -level communities, pregnant and nursing people and people with chronic and pre -existing conditions.
“The Americans should be able to drink their water and breathe their air without poisoning, and if they are not, our government is failing,” said Hertzberg.
The EPA responded to a letter stating that the policy decisions were “the result of the process where the Administrator (Lee) Zallon was told about the latest research and science by the professionals of the EPA career, and the majority of those who proud of this agency’s work day”.
The EPA’s statement condemned what it said, “The Biden administration” is “trying to shut down US energy and rely more on our citizens on foreign foam fuel.”
According to the Guardian, Berg, who was the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences from 2003 to 2011, said that discriminatory criticism is not a motivator for employees. On the contrary, he hoped that his differences would help the EPA return to his mission, which Berg said, “If you breathe the air and drink water, it just makes any difference.”
In the statement, EPA employees outline five major concerns: to ignore scientific consensus to benefit the pollution. Researcher and dedicated to the development office; Changing EPA’s development in the weakest communities of the country; To subjugate public trust; And “promoting a culture of fear” that forces staff to choose between their welfare and livelihood.
Zodidon’s pressure for the reorganization of the Agency’s Research and Development Office was part of an extended effort to prevent and reduce its budget wings and reduce its budget. He is also trying to cancel pollution rules that were found in a test by the Associated Press to save about 30,000 30,000 years annually and save $ 275 billion.
The authors of this declaration wrote, “Your decisions and actions will be re -created for generations to come.” “Under your leadership, the EPA will not protect communities from hazardous chemicals and unsafe drinking water, but instead will increase the risk of public health and safety.”
“Administrator Zalidon, we urge you to respect his oath and serve the American people. Going forward, you will have the opportunity to take the right course. If you choose to do so, we are ready to support your efforts to fulfill the EPA mission.”
The Nobel Laureate Carol Graider, one of the letter signatures, who is a professor of molecular and cellular organisms at the University of California, Santa Cruz, described the heat wave on the East Coast as evidence of climate change last week.
“And if we do not have scientists in the EPA to understand what we do, what does it work affect our health, more and more people are dying,” Grader said, as the Guardian reported.
When asked about the fear of retaliation or reaction, the grader said that “she was raising the consequences of everything.”
Since the labs lose funds, the graduate students who meet on a regular basis said they were worried about pursuing a career in science. Grader said that if scientists are supported by the next generation, it becomes a long -term problem.
“It’s a decades of loss,” Grader said.
