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40% of US electricity is now emissions-free (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Environmental Protection Agency?

Sorry, I don't follow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes the Environmental Protection Agency. The Heritage foundation is taking applications and they vet by looking at whether their social media accounts supports Trump: https://www.project2025.org/

Last time Trump did their best to push responsible people out of government jobs, but that was just a test run. This time around it would be a speed run.

Edit: per Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Like a lot Trump stuff, that is a whole bag of crazy! Yet another reason to hope he doesn't get in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. The agency is led by its administrator, who is appointed by the president and approved by the Senate. The current administrator is Michael S. Regan. The EPA is not a Cabinet department, but the administrator is normally given cabinet rank. The EPA has its headquarters in Washington, D.C., regional offices for each of the agency's ten regions, and 27 laboratories.The agency conducts environmental assessment, research, and education. It has the responsibility of maintaining and enforcing national standards under a variety of environmental laws, in consultation with state, tribal, and local governments. EPA enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures. It delegates some permitting, monitoring, and enforcement responsibility to U.S. states and the federally recognized tribes. The agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts. The agency's budgeted employee level in 2023 is 16,204.1 full-time equivalent (FTE). More than half of EPA's employees are engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists; other employees include legal, public affairs, financial, and information technologists.

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