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From the article (Robin Bravender and Kevin Bogardus, E&E News reporters
Greenwire: Friday, November 11, 2016):
"People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed," said John O'Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a union that represents thousands of EPA employees. After Election Day, "people were crying," added O'Grady, who works in EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago. "They were recommending that people take sick leave and go home."
"EPA employees stand to see some of the most drastic changes under the Trump administration, and they may be taking things a bit harder than other government workers."
"If you look at the seven stages of grief, I'm still in denial. I will not look at the news. I will not read the news," said an EPA career employee."
"Another EPA staffer said, "I don't actually know anybody here that was supporting Trump." That person said people are "worried" that their work over the last eight years will be unraveled. "It's always a time of uncertainty" when a new administration comes in, the employee said, and there were fears when the George W. Bush administration came into office, too. But "people are more worried this time," the person added."
"Silvia Saracco, head of a union chapter that represents EPA employees in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, said, "There is a lot of angst out there, nervousness."
Trump said before that he has respect for the land.
“I want to keep the lands great, and you don’t know what the state is going to do,” Trump told Field & Stream magazine in January. He re-emphasized this in an interview with the Outdoor Sportsman Group: “We’re not looking to sell off land.”
We can only hope that he sticks to his word or nobody get into a position where they can do the opposite of what was stated here.
Trump seems like he actively responds to his Twitter account, so perhaps people can communicate to the Trump administration through social media and explain how important it is to preserve our natural resources.
If Trump truly wants to be the President for all Americans that he must listen to all American's concerns.
Well Trump is a business man at heart and any good business man that takes over a company is going to trim the fat and make that company run better, more efficiently and cheaper.
Workers at the EPA and any other agency should be concerned especially if they are not essential.
I think it will be great if Trump holds people responsible for their jobs. There are too many that just go through the motions for the paycheck.
Do you think that billions upon billions of dollars of research predicated upon there being this imminent crisis leads to GOOD, impartial science?
Do you seriously think that science exists in a vacuum and can't be politicized?
The problem with people who argue against science is you don't understand science, so you instead substitute in conspiracy in its place (economic conspiracies are usually the first ones, where all kinds of crisis is concocted in order to gain funding) or sometimes it is about a "global government" or some other nonsense, all while ignoring the actual findings and temperature data that 100% backs the science.
How many record breaking months of extreme heat do we have to have before you begin to admit that the earth is getting warmer?
Now Trump's righthand man is the Breitbart clown who ran daily articles denying climate change.
The Dumbing Down of America just took a Great Leap Forward.
"People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed," said John O'Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, a union that represents thousands of EPA employees. After Election Day, "people were crying," added O'Grady, who works in EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago. "They were recommending that people take sick leave and go home."
What do you know about science? Do you believe in climate change? That's always a good place to start.
I believe the climate changes by the second, as the day heats and the night cools
NEXT!
The only thing science has proved is, there was a major event that caused the ice age. They have proved the planet heals itself even after a major species ending event.
What you called global warming and when that didn't work want to call it climate change, is the earth healing itself after a major event.
Follow the money.. They cannot make money off people for a natural occurring event. The smart exploit the ignorant to make them RICH... Meet Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.
The EPA should be cut and re-directed to focus on large polluters of grounds, ground, water, rivers, lakes, and streams. Enough of this "carbon crisis" nonsense.
Yes, however there is legitimate fear that the Trump Adminstration
will rout the EPA so badly, that they do not even perform their basic
function at all.
Energy and Mining interests are foaming at the mouth, it's up to Trump
to provide reasonable restraint and protect our environment.
I hope he listens to the legitimate voices of conservation and ecology while also
lifting most carbon regulations. Perhaps his children will speak up on this.
Great!!! One of the first things they need to 86 is the Waters of the United State crap....It's going to cost Farmer millions
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