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An anonymous letter from the EPA

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Anyone else see this? I saw this on another site, but I am not sure how reliable it is. Nontheless, it does sound legit. I heard that the Canadian counterpart of the EPA downloaded and stored a lot of data from their website before it closed because they are pretty sure much of that data is going to get erased before the site goes back up.

"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:

The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated.

All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released.

No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.

Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.

All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.

We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon.

But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.

We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.

Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."
 
Anyone else see this? I saw this on another site, but I am not sure how reliable it is. Nontheless, it does sound legit. I heard that the Canadian counterpart of the EPA downloaded and stored a lot of data from their website before it closed because they are pretty sure much of that data is going to get erased before the site goes back up.

"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:

The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated.

All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released.

No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.

Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.

All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.

We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon.

But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.

We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.

Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."

Of course it sounds legit to you, it paints Pres. Trump in a bad light. You could find an anonymous source that claimed that Pres. Trump was a space vampire, controlled by Reptilians living inside the Moon and you'd believe it 100%...
 
Sure.
This is what happens when a celebrity rides a populist anti-intellectual wave to power.

And his supporters are the same people that bitch constantly about public education and those pesky college academics, with their incessantly annoying research.
 
Out with the old and in with the new!

Like Obama once said: Elections have consequences.

The executive agency's of the Federal Government will support
and follow the new policies of the new Trump administration.

Nothing new about this.... Funny how people want to make this into a major issue.
 
Anyone else see this? I saw this on another site, but I am not sure how reliable it is. Nontheless, it does sound legit. I heard that the Canadian counterpart of the EPA downloaded and stored a lot of data from their website before it closed because they are pretty sure much of that data is going to get erased before the site goes back up.

"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:

The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated.

All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released.

No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.

Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.

All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.

We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon.

But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.

We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.

Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."

Yes we know....all that means is that we no longer support facts and science and we have replaced those pesky things with "Alternative Facts" Like Dinosaurs and humans living used to live together.

Welcome to new version of USA, when and Twitter in Chief makes his own reality and Republicans blindly will follow

Diving Mullah
 
Anyone else see this? I saw this on another site, but I am not sure how reliable it is. Nontheless, it does sound legit. I heard that the Canadian counterpart of the EPA downloaded and stored a lot of data from their website before it closed because they are pretty sure much of that data is going to get erased before the site goes back up.

"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:

The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated.

All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released.

No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.

Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.

All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.

We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon.

But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.

We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.

Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."

Whatever, we don't even need the EPA. You know it gets cold outside in the winter time and those burning rivers are really going to help out. And global warming is going to keep everyone toasty warm all the time. It's a good thing.
 
Anyone else see this? I saw this on another site, but I am not sure how reliable it is. Nontheless, it does sound legit. I heard that the Canadian counterpart of the EPA downloaded and stored a lot of data from their website before it closed because they are pretty sure much of that data is going to get erased before the site goes back up.

There were certainly many groups working to download as much data as possible because they feared this would happen.

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/rogue-scientists-race-save-climate-data-trump/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ht-vanish-under-trump/?utm_term=.57cd0c4b66bc

Trump officials suspend plan to delete EPA climate web pages | Science | AAAS






Of course it sounds legit to you, it paints Pres. Trump in a bad light. You could find an anonymous source that claimed that Pres. Trump was a space vampire, controlled by Reptilians living inside the Moon and you'd believe it 100%...

Of course it sounds unlegitimate to you, it paints Trump in a bad light. You could find an anonymous source that claimed that Hillary Clinton was a space vampire, controlled by Reptilians living inside the Moon and you'd believe it 100%...



(Gee, that was easy.

Anyway, read the links. Do more research if you'd like. Trump definitely took aim at the EPA and only backed down (temporarily, perhaps) after uproar.)
 
Anyone else see this? I saw this on another site, but I am not sure how reliable it is. Nontheless, it does sound legit. I heard that the Canadian counterpart of the EPA downloaded and stored a lot of data from their website before it closed because they are pretty sure much of that data is going to get erased before the site goes back up.

"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:

The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated.

All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released.

No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.

Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.

All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.

We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon.

But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.

We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.

Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."

The EPA is an organization so infamously incompetent that they allowed an employee to pretend they were a CIA agent for years. If ever there was an organization that needed to be immediately frozen in it's tracks so that bumbling idiots could be purged it's that one. Good lord, didn't this so-called EPA employee have reports to submit or research to perform? Who cares if Trump's team is cutting their budgets in half. They clearly have more money than they know what to do with. This organization showed themselves to be blindly partisan by refusing to co-operate with Trump during the run-up to the inauguration.
 
Of course it sounds legit to you, it paints Pres. Trump in a bad light. You could find an anonymous source that claimed that Pres. Trump was a space vampire, controlled by Reptilians living inside the Moon and you'd believe it 100%...

Does what Trump has done regarding the EPA sound like something Jesus would do? Or does what the letter writer in the OP sound like something Jesus would do?

At this point I'd like to believe the OP. It more reflects the teachings I received when I was a Christian than Trump's disregard for the heath and safety of 99% of Americans.
 
Does what Trump has done regarding the EPA sound like something Jesus would do? Or does what the letter writer in the OP sound like something Jesus would do?

At this point I'd like to believe the OP. It more reflects the teachings I received when I was a Christian than Trump's disregard for the heath and safety of 99% of Americans.

Trump rejected the Talibornagain agenda and so did the GOP and so did the States. I'm glad the god-botherers aren't running this country. If I wanted to live in a theocracy I'd move to Saudi Arabia.
 
Trump rejected the Talibornagain agenda and so did the GOP and so did the States. I'm glad the god-botherers aren't running this country. If I wanted to live in a theocracy I'd move to Saudi Arabia.

Wait a year. You won't have to move. You'll have a theocracy right here.
 
elections matter.
 
Of course it sounds legit to you, it paints Pres. Trump in a bad light. You could find an anonymous source that claimed that Pres. Trump was a space vampire, controlled by Reptilians living inside the Moon and you'd believe it 100%...

Except we know they are under media lockdown and President Trump and his EPA appointee have both expressed disdain for the EPA and don't think it should exist in the first place. You're right, it's not verified, but it's highly probable.

Out with the old and in with the new!

Like Obama once said: Elections have consequences.

The executive agency's of the Federal Government will support
and follow the new policies of the new Trump administration.

Nothing new about this.... Funny how people want to make this into a major issue.

Science is not supposed to be subject to the whims of the president. The presidential preference of a minority of Americans does not overwrite facts and evidence.

Whatever, we don't even need the EPA. You know it gets cold outside in the winter time and those burning rivers are really going to help out. And global warming is going to keep everyone toasty warm all the time. It's a good thing.

Don't be facetious. There are people here who actually believe that.
 
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Except we know they are under media lockdown and President Trump and his EPA appointee have both expressed disdain for the EPA and don't think it should exist in the first place. You're right, it's not verified, but it's highly probable.
Would you say that since this story is unproven, like Trump's illegal voter claims, that the person who wrote this is lying?
 
Would you say that since this story is unproven, like Trump's illegal voter claims, that the person who wrote this is lying?

Possibly, this however actually is plausible and follows from the facts we do know. There is no supporting evidence for 5 million illegal immigrants voting.
 
The EPA is an organization so infamously incompetent that they allowed an employee to pretend they were a CIA agent for years. If ever there was an organization that needed to be immediately frozen in it's tracks so that bumbling idiots could be purged it's that one. Good lord, didn't this so-called EPA employee have reports to submit or research to perform? Who cares if Trump's team is cutting their budgets in half. They clearly have more money than they know what to do with. This organization showed themselves to be blindly partisan by refusing to co-operate with Trump during the run-up to the inauguration.

Huh?

There was one nutty employee years ago at the EPA and that means the entire organization is incompetent and blindly partisan? I think I missed a few steps of the logic there...
 
Of course it sounds unlegitimate to you, it paints Trump in a bad light. You could find an anonymous source that claimed that Hillary Clinton was a space vampire, controlled by Reptilians living inside the Moon and you'd believe it 100%...



(Gee, that was easy.

Anyway, read the links. Do more research if you'd like. Trump definitely took aim at the EPA and only backed down (temporarily, perhaps) after uproar.)

I made no claim either way....
 
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