The Environment
Who is Lee Zeldin, and why should you care? Of all the cretinous bootlickers in the Trunt administration, there is perhaps no one worse than EPA director Lee Zeldin. And that is quite a statement. Pete Kegsbreath, RFK Jr., Todd Blanche, JD Vance, oops we mean James Donald Bowman, er James David Hamel, or, as he is lovingly referred to, as CouchFuck Mcgee, etc. all should make you projectile vomit. And who can forget Trunt’s last EPA Director Scott Pruitt?
But Zeldin’s efforts to shit on the environment are even more sickening. The awful things happening to our environment from this creep are almost unbelievable, and yet are all too real. I told you we are going to be talking about the environment, and this article is a must read if you care even a little about what is really happening. And finally, for you right wing snowflakes, if this is upsetting to your delicate Trunt sensibilities, oh well.
Last summer, more than a hundred and fifty staff members at the Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to the agency’s head, Lee Zeldin, outlining their concerns about his leadership. Topping the list was Zeldin’s naked partisanship. The administrator often used his official communications to trash Democrats. This “politicized messaging,” the letter said, was undermining trust in the agency. So, too, were Zeldin’s gutting of the E.P.A.’s research division and his tendency to ignore the findings of its scientists. The missive noted that it reflected the staffers’ personal, rather than professional, opinions, and had been written on their own time. It ended by urging Zeldin to “correct course.”
“Should you choose to do so, we stand ready to support your efforts,” it said. The employees who signed the letter did not expect it to have much effect. “I thought, Here’s a letter the staff is going to present to the administrator,” one told me. “He’s going to take a look at it and put it in the wastepaper basket. And we will go on with our work.”
That’s not how things played out. Zeldin, or at least his deputies, launched the electronic equivalent of a manhunt. In e-mails that were eventually obtained by E&E News, a lawyer at the E.P.A.’s Office of General Counsel told colleagues that the letter to Zeldin raised no ethical concerns, because the signatories were “simply exercising their first amendment right to express their opinions.” Another lawyer in the general counsel’s office warned against any sort of retaliatory action, because “government employee speech is protected.” The agency nonetheless kept up the pressure. It soon announced that it was placing a hundred and forty-four of the signatories on administrative leave.
Read on, thanks to the New Yorker.
