Outgoing EPA chief reveals fears Trump administration will halt climate action
by Oliver Milman from Environment | The Guardian on (#29ESG)
EPA staff are 'nervous' after the president-elect promised to reduce the environment agency to 'tidbits' and named climate skeptic Scott Pruitt to lead it
There is "nervousness" among Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff that Donald Trump's incoming administration will sideline science and reverse action on climate change, according to the agency's outgoing administrator, Gina McCarthy.
McCarthy told the Guardian that the Trump administration would face resistance from multiple fronts if it ran counter to a widespread shift to renewable energy, as well as scientific opinion, by rejecting climate science and attempting to bolster the fossil fuel industry.
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