Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency put at least 139 employees on administrative leave after having signed and mediated a “DissentAgainst the administrator Lee Zeldin and the Greater Trump Administration.
“Since the agency’s foundation in 1970, the EPA has accomplished this mission by taking advantage of science, financing and expert staff in service to the American people. Today, we are in dissent against the accent put by the current administration on harmful deregulation, the bad characterization of the previous actions of EPA, and contempt for scientific expertise,” the letter, condamous to Zeldin on Monday.
“Since January 2025, federal workers across the country have been denigrated and rejected on the basis of false allegations of waste, fraud and mistreatment. Meanwhile, the Americans witnessed the dismantling of public health and environmental protection in the continuation of the political advantage. Today, we come directly to you, the administrator Zeldin and our elected officials, with the five concerns below. The credibility of the EPA as a leading scientific institution.
EPA was the target of hundreds of grant cutsthat Zeldin has enthusiastic Participated in the thumb of Doge, and more disturbing declines in federal regulations are on the horizon.
The declaration notes five main concerns: undermining public confidence, ignoring scientific consensus to benefit from pollutors, reverse the progress of EPA in the most vulnerable communities of America, dismantle the office of research and development and “the promotion of a culture of fear, forcing the personnel to choose between their livelihoods and well-being”.
The EPA quickly placed each employee who signed the letter on administrative leave, saying that he had a “zero tolerance policy for the bureaucrats of SAPE, sabotage and sabotage The agenda of the administration was elected by the great peoples of this country last November.“There is no indication of the continuation of the punishment that it will look like if it happens.
