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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1d1b11" face=Euphemia><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>A friend of a friend posted this on Facebook, an
inside look at what currently happening inside the EPA:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1d2129" face=Euphemia><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1D2129'>From an EPA staffer:<br>
"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:<br>
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.<br>
Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also
silenced and will give no response.<br>
All grants and contrac<span class=gmail-textexposedshow>ts are frozen from the
contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their
thesis.</span><br>
<span class=gmail-textexposedshow>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.</span><br>
<span class=gmail-textexposedshow>We have been told the website is being
reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.</span><br>
<span class=gmail-textexposedshow>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."</span><br>
<span class=gmail-textexposedshow>If you share, please do so with copy and
paste.</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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