EPA Staff Mostly Ignore Trump Visit To Agency To Sign Climate Directive

March 29, 2017
EPA rank-and-file staff were not invited to the agency's Map Room to see President Donald Trump sign a long-anticipated, high-profile executive order seeking to dismantle the Obama administration's climate change regulatory work, and many staffers tell Inside EPA that they are keeping their heads down and concentrating on work. “Honestly, no one is talking about” the president's visit, one EPA staffer says. “People are doing their work and just trying to stay positive. . . . trying to do what...


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