E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work [View all]
Source: New York Times
June 30, 2025 Updated 9:58 a.m. ET
More than 270 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency signed a letter on Monday denouncing what they described as the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health. The letter to President Trump’s E.P.A. administrator, Lee Zeldin, was a remarkable rebuke of the agency’s political leadership.
It followed a similar missive sent this month by more than 60 employees of the National Institutes of Health, who criticized orders they saw as illegal and unethical. “E.P.A. employees join in solidarity with employees across the federal government in opposing this administration’s policies, including those that undermine the E.P.A. mission of protecting human health and the environment,” the E.P.A. workers wrote.
Asked for comment, E.P.A. spokeswoman Carolyn Holran wrote in an email: “The Trump E.P.A. will continue to work with states, tribes and communities to advance the agency’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment and Administrator Zeldin’s Powering the Great American Comeback Initiative, which includes providing clean air, land and water for EVERY American.”
The four-page document outlined five overarching concerns with the Trump administration’s approach to the E.P.A. The top complaint was that decisions had been made based on a political agenda, not on science and the law.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/climate/epa-employees-warning-letter.html
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