President Donald Trump promised `tremendous cutting` at the
Environmental Protection Agency. Nearly 400 employees have left the
agency since Aug. 31, largely due to buyouts. As a result, the agency is
on course to become the smallest it`s been since
Reagan was president in 1988.The phrase "climate change" has been singled out and eliminated in grant applications, according to Washington Post interviews with employees. That effort is led by past Trump campaign aide John Konkus, who reportedly calls it the "double c word."
Konkus, an EPA public affairs officer, has been given the responsibility of vetting the hundreds of millions in grants annually awarded by the agency to universities and nonprofits. Former EPA officials told the Washington Post that they had never heard of a similar arrangement.
Konkus, an EPA public affairs officer, has been given the responsibility of vetting the hundreds of millions in grants annually awarded by the agency to universities and nonprofits. Former EPA officials told the Washington Post that they had never heard of a similar arrangement...
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Under Trump The EPA is More About Politics Than Science
Ken Notes: I have mentioned for the past five years that climate change is dividing us politically.
Let`s talk clean water and clean air, less carbon, no more foreign oil, renewables, green jobs, new business development, tourism, green building, sustainable ag and dairy.
Green is good -- I do not care about what is bad and there are hundreds of millions in grants annually awarded to prove I am right (right get it)...
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