Americans' health at risk as shutdown slashes EPA

[Hermit-The-Prog]

'It's a nightmare': Americans' health at risk as shutdown slashes EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency has been cut to a skeleton staff, meaning work to ensure clean air and water is left undone

[by] Oliver Milman Wed 9 Jan 2019

The US government shutdown has stymied environmental testing and inspections, prompting warnings that Americans’ health is being put at increasing risk as the shutdown drags on.

More than 13,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are not at work, with just 794 people deemed essential staff currently undertaking the agency’s duties.

The remaining skeleton staff are able to “respond to emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property”, according to an EPA planning document. But many routine activities such as checks on regulated businesses, clean-ups of toxic superfund sites and the pursuit of criminal polluters have been paused since 28 December.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/09/epa-government-shutdown-environmental-protection-agency-nightmare

[ And after the shutdown? See
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211649716 ]

[gtar100]

1. Must be because there are some Americans perfectly willing to trash and poison our environment

and with the EPA out of the way....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. it's pollution for profit

In other words, GOPer philosophy.