It saddens and frustrates me to no end that this is the kind of work that the EPA should be doing for the long term good of our country and species and knowing

It saddens and frustrates me to no end that this is the kind of work that the EPA should be doing for the long term good of our country and species and knowing that it is being systematically dismantled from the inside (as many of our federal agencies are). We've given the keys of the hen-house to the foxes and are sitting back to watch our manufacturing jobs roll in. Granted this problem was already occurring and economics almost always takes precedence over the environment overall, but the fact we're going backwards makes me furious. Scott Pruitt Is Carrying Out His E.P.A. Agenda in Secret, Critics Say: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/politics/scott-pruitt-... Trump signs order at the EPA to dismantle environmental protections: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-signs-order-at-the-epa-to-dismantle-environmental-protections/2017/03/28/3ec30240-13e2-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.4c2cf38cccfc https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump... Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/trump-epa-chief-pruitt-regulations-climate-change.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/trump-epa-chi...