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About 700 EPA employees have jumped ship, of the 3,000 Trump wishes to dismiss.  Between employee reductions and re-locating many to the hinterlands, where the results of their regulations and ukases are felt, the EPA can be tamed, not ended.  

"WASHINGTON — More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.

Of the employees who have quit, retired or taken a buyout package since the beginning of the year, more than 200 are scientists. An additional 96 are environmental protection specialists, a broad category that includes scientists as well as others experienced in investigating and analyzing pollution levels. Nine department directors have departed the agency as well as dozens of attorneys and program managers. Most of the employees who have left are not being replaced."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...-buyouts-pruitt.html

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Between employee reductions and re-locating many to the hinterlands, where the results of their regulations and ukases are felt, the EPA can be tamed, not ended.  

 

End it.

Wish that were practical.  However, some states have been negligent in controlling their pollution controls.  Best to make EPA a small agency responsible for holding states to their responsibilities.  Rather like the old Agriculture Dept. county agents.  Those guys provided services.  But, had to live with their advice and be friends with the farmers.

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