[Occupymendocino] The EPA: fleabitten

[John]

A friend of a friend posted this on Facebook, an inside look at what
currently happening inside the EPA:

 

>From an EPA staffer:
"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."
If you share, please do so with copy and paste.

 

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