Environment freeze-out: Trump administration imposes halt to EPA grants and contracts

[workinclasszero]

Environment freeze-out: Trump administration imposes halt to EPA grants and contracts
The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Andrew Revkin and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017 06:25 AM CST

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency’s budget allocations and even threaten to disrupt core operations ranging from toxic cleanups to water quality testing, according to records and interviews.

In one email exchange obtained by ProPublica on Monday, an EPA contracting officer concluded a note to a storm water management employee this way:

“Right now we are in a holding pattern. The new EPA administration has asked that all contract and grant awards be temporarily suspended, effective immediately. Until we receive further clarification, this includes task orders and work assignments.”

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/environment-freeze-out-trump-administration-imposes-halt-to-epa-grants-and-contracts_partner/

[Cattledog]

1. Breaking***CDC just canceled long planned conference on Health and Climate change.

With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently canceled a major climate change conference that had been scheduled for next month in Atlanta.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/cdc-abruptly-cancels-long-planned-conference-on-climate-change-and-health/?utm_term=.c9fbee999f6a

[workinclasszero]

4. Lets face it

Science is dead...yes..dead in the United States of America as long as Trump and the republican party are in control of the government.

They are setting up a fascist theocracy, science gets in the way of that, you know?

[Else You Are Mad]

2. This is just Trump's work around...

To gut Social Security and Medicare. He hopes that the majority of the population die of poisoning, cancer and other diseases before they are eligible to receive the benefits.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. My friend's wife works for the EPA.

She says that in the weeks running up to inauguration, they were doing all they can to get as much in to mitigate the damage they knew would come once the Madman took office.

Truly a sad situation.