{"id":2371,"date":"2018-03-08T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/08\/trump-swamp-deepens-puts-public-health-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:08:00","slug":"trump-swamp-deepens-puts-public-health-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-swamp-deepens-puts-public-health-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Swamp Deepens, Puts Public Health At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump’s EPA is embracing the swamp. A series of administrative decisions made this week continue to award industry insiders, at the expense of Americans’ health. See for yourself:<\/p>\n

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Nearly half of Trump’s EPA political appointees have strong industry ties, including dozens of former lobbyists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Associated Press<\/a>: “An analysis by the AP shows that nearly half of the political appointees hired at the Environmental Protection Agency under Trump have strong industry ties<\/strong>. Of 59 EPA hires tracked by the AP over the last year, about a third worked as registered lobbyists or lawyers for chemical manufacturers, fossil fuel producers and other corporate clients that raise the very type of revolving-door conflicts of interests that Trump promised voters he would eliminate.”<\/p>\n

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A senior EPA official received approval to collect outside income from clients, while working for the Trump administration, whose identities are being kept secret.  <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Associated Press<\/a>: “A key aide to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been granted permission to make extra money moonlighting for private clients whose identities are being kept secret.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Trump nominated a chemical industry insider to run the EPA office that oversees emergency response to hazardous spills and cleanups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Associated Press<\/a>: “President Donald Trump on Friday tapped a chemical industry insider to run the environmental protection agency office that oversees emergency response to hazardous spills and cleanups of the nation’s most toxic sites<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Trump’s EPA awarded a $3,000 contract to sweep Scott Pruitt’s office for bugs to a business associated of the head of Pruitt’s security detail. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: “Pasquale ‘Nino’ Perrotta — who heads Pruitt’s security detail and also serves as a principal of Rockville-based Sequoia Security Group — suggested last year to EPA officials that they hire a fellow member of the management team at Sequoia<\/strong>, Edwin Steinmetz, according to an administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal agency decisions. The roughly $3,000 contract to sweep Pruitt’s office for concealed listening devices was conducted by Edwin Steinmetz Associates<\/strong>, the official said.”<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Trump’s EPA plans to shut down a program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children, and is overhauling an Obama-era initiative to regulate toxic coal ash waste.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Hill<\/a>: “A federal environmental program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being merged as part of a proposed consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency<\/strong> (EPA). The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) will no longer exist following plans to combine three EPA offices, the agency confirmed to The Hill Monday.”<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: “The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed significant changes to an Obama-era initiative to regulate coal ash waste<\/strong>, giving states and utilities more latitude in how they dispose of the potentially toxic substance. […] It includes more than a dozen suggested changes for how coal ash — which has contaminated waterways in two high-profile spills during the past decade — is stored at more than 400 coal-fired power plants around the country.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump’s EPA is embracing the swamp. A series of administrative decisions made this week continue to award industry insiders, at the expense of Americans’ health. 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