The American EPA (EPA) is planning to cancel its office for scientific research and may put more than a thousand scientists and employees who help in providing the scientific basis for rules that protect human health and environmental systems from environmental pollutants.
The Associated Press quoted documents reviewed by the Democratic Party employees in the House of Representatives Committee for Science, Space and Technology, that up to 1155 chemists, poison scientists, biology, and others, or 75% of the research program employees, may be demobilized.
The Trump administration depicts the demobilization process as part of a broader campaign to reduce the size of the federal government and make it more efficient, but it is attacked by analysts and critics who consider it a tremendous disintegration of the task of the Long -term Environmental Protection Agency for the Protection of Public Health and the Environment and the maintenance of climate balance.
The layoffs plans are part of a series of procedures from the administration of President Donald Trump, where the director of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeladen expressed his desire to cancel 65% of the agency’s budget, which represents a significant reduction in spending, and in the number of employees in tasks such as air quality control, response to natural disasters, and anti -lead, among many other jobs of the agency.
Zelden announced last week a series of procedures to cancel prominent environmental rules, including rules related to pollution caused by coal stations, climate change, and electric vehicles, while describing it as “the most important day in America’s history in terms of canceling the organizational restrictions”, as Zeladen told me in an article published in the Wall Street Journal: “We plant a dagger in the heart of the creature of climate change, and we preach The Golden era of America. “
He pointed out that these moves will provide trillion dollars from the costs caused by these rules and “hidden taxes”, and reduce living expenses for American families and reduce the prices of main goods such as cars, heating fuel and companies operating.
“Our measures will also revive the American manufacturing sector, and this generalizes economic benefits for societies,” Zilden wrote. Zeladen said that he will eliminate 31 environmental rulers, including a scientific result on global warming reached by the agency that formed the central basis for American action against climate change.
He added that President Donald Trump supports the re -formulation of the agency’s result in 2009, and that the greenhouse gases that cause the high temperature of the planet threaten public health and prosperity.
This result, which dates back to the era of former President Barack Obama, according to the clean air law, is the legal basis of a set of climate bases related to cars, power stations and other pollution sources. Environmental and climate scientists classify this scientific result as the cornerstone of American law.
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