Top Transition Official Details Budget For Trump To Permanently Shrink EPA

February 7, 2017
Myron Ebell, the former head of the Trump transition team at EPA, says he hopes that President Donald Trump fulfills his campaign promise to dramatically and permanently shrink EPA by revoking its climate change authority, significantly cutting its staff and budget, and shifting much of its work to states. In a Feb. 7 interview with Inside EPA , Ebell says that if the administration is serious about cutting the government's budget and slashing the federal workforce, it will require cuts...


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