Trump Wants To Cut EPA Science By 40%
Trump plan for 40% cut could cause @EPA science office ‘to implode,’ official warns, Science Insider
“The Trump administration wants to cut spending by EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) by more than 40% from roughly $510 million to $290 million, according to sources that have seen preliminary directives from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The cuts target scientific work in fields including climate change, air and water quality, and chemical safety.”
“The cuts target scientific work in fields including climate change, air and water quality, and chemical safety.”
The outlook for NASA is obviously not good.
Agreed. Anything related to earth observation or earth sciences would be a target at NASA.
I can only hope.
Better living through chemistry, aka toxic sludge is GOOD for you
Is everyone ready to watch a US river catch fire again? That will look awesome when it plays on live TV to a world audience!
I went to college in Buffalo in the 1970’s. The Buffalo River actually caught on fire once. During one of my chemistry classes we went to the river to collect some samples for organic analysis. One of the students walked out to what appeared to be the edge of the water, then felt the ground give way under his feet. He was not walking on the bank, but rather on a crust of pollution that had formed over the water! If you want to see what air is like without the EPA, take a trip to China.
Here in Ohio, everyone has heard of when the Cuyahoga River caught fire:
http://www.ohiohistorycentr…
Apparently that was the most famous time. According to this other site, it actually caught fire 13 times!
https://www.washingtonpost….
And an Ohio microbrewery once sold a “burning river” red ale, named in honor of the event. For rivers closer to Washington, can anyone in the area say whether or not you can eat fish caught in the Potomac? When I was growing up in the area, it was concerned very unhealthy. The Potomac has its sources in the Appalachian mining country, and runoff from the tailings was a problem.
I think the budget is being reduced, not eliminated.
Agree. Budget cuts = rivers on fire. No wonder Trump won.
The guy who says it’s ok to pollute streams will do just about anything.
“The Coast Guard’s $9.1 billion budget in 2017 would be cut 14 percent to about $7.8 billion, while the TSA and FEMA budgets would be reduced about 11 percent each to $4.5 billion and $3.6 billion, respectively.”
One word: Yikes!
I’ve been cutting the guy some slack, but this is really sad. He has no ideology of his own apparently, other than self/family aggrandizement. It’ll push us more quickly to the edge of the thermal cliff by extending “plausible deniability” due to perceived lack of Science on the issue…
Actually the touchstone is fairly simple: he’s a Neo-Con. Remove governmental regulations! Unleash the private sector!
What he ignores, as the Neo-Cons before, is fairly simple: it is the job of the government, in its idealized role representing the people, to establish the kind of country we want to live in. To that extent the government assures a level playing field for private enterprise.
Coal? Do what you want, but don’t pollute streams, and stop knowing the tops of mountains off.
A/C industry? Same, but we care about the ozone. Work it out.
Auto safety? Put seat belts in cars. Add better brakes. and we want 50MPH, too.
The list goes on and on. These are policies established rightly by the government. Free enterprise can go to work competing against each other. But they cannot piss where we live.