Critics Say Staff, Budget Cuts Will ‘Sabotage’ Key State, EPA Functions

Environmentalists and other critics are warning that Trump administration plans to downsize and re-organize EPA, in addition to a requested 55 percent budget cut, would decimate the agency’s ability to carry out its basic functions and protect public health, citing the gutting of the research office and enormous proposed cuts to state assistance funds. “This is not restructuring, this is sabotage,” said Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network (EPN) representing EPA alumni, at a May 5 press...