EPA Workers Union Slams Trump Pledge to Gut Climate Agencies
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Jun 05, 2024
A union representing thousands of Environmental Protection Agency workers raised alarm Tuesday over former President Donald Trump’s pledge to slash key federal climate departments if he’s reelected in November and condemned his attempt to downplay concerns about the planetary emergency, which is fueling destructive extreme weather and pushing global temperatures to record highs.
“Donald Trump has made it clear that a second Trump term would look worse than his first—with broader attacks on science and the environment driving the day,” Marie Owens Powell, president of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238, said in a statement.
“His first four years were a fiasco for the agency bargaining unit workers whose mission it is to protect human health and the environment during this climate emergency, with cuts to the workforce, rollbacks of regulations, and more,” Powell added. “Trump has made it clear that a second term would be catastrophic for the environment and reverse the progress made against climate change.”
The union’s statement came in response to a Sunday Fox Newsinterviewin which Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said that federal environmental agencies have been “so bad for us,” claiming they’ve “stopped you from doing business in this country.”
“We’re going to do, like, Department of Interior,” Trump said, naming one of the agencies he plans to target. “There’s so many things you can do.”
The former president, whose administration dismantled more than 100federal environmental rules during its four years in power, also mocked President Joe Biden’s description of the climate crisis as an existential threat and ridiculed fears about rising sea levels.
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