Thursday, April 27, 2017

Targeted by Trump, EPA employees speak out

The Chicago Tribune reports:
Most employees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shy away from the public spotlight, focusing instead on the behind-the-scenes work of enforcing laws intended to protect public health and wildlife.

Then Donald Trump became president.

Even before Trump introduced a budget last month that would eliminate thousands of EPA jobs and abolish or dramatically scale back several key environmental initiatives, some agency employees began speaking out on their own time to tell Americans about the value of their efforts to clean up the nation's air, water and land.

At the EPA's Chicago office, which oversees the agency's work in six states around the Great Lakes, employees have participated in rallies protesting Trump's policies, organized a social media campaign and showed up at community forums to promote what they do for a living.
Where's the Hatch Act on this ???