This is simply unacceptable for the nation’s top environmental regulator. The lack of funding hinders its ability to inspect facilities, measure contamination, punish violators, and write new rules to combat climate change.
John,
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been our nation’s greatest tool for combating climate change. But after four years of funding cuts and sabotage by the Trump administration, the agency is struggling to recover.
As part of his plan to tackle climate change, President Biden pledged to rebuild the EPA. Due to GOP obstructionists in Congress, however, the agency remains severely underfunded. While the EPA’s budget did receive a marginal boost last year, congressional Republicans made sure it was only a fraction of what Biden asked for.
A weak EPA is extremely dangerous to the future of our planet, John. The agency is severely understaffed, with the lowest staffing levels since the Reagan administration. It even lacks basic services any office requires like sufficient IT support. Last October, part of the agency’s computer system used to store data on the health hazards that hundreds of new chemicals may pose went down for two weeks.
This is simply unacceptable for the nation’s top environmental regulator. The lack of funding hinders its ability to inspect facilities, measure contamination, punish violators, and write new rules to combat climate change.
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