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Page 6A TV TIME East Oregonian Friday, January 27, 2017 Official: Trump wants to slash EPA workforce, budget WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of President Donald Trump’s transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he expects the new administration to seek significant budget and staff cuts. Myron Ebell said in an interview with The Associated Press that Trump is likely to seek significant reductions to the agency’s work- force — currently about 15,000 employees nationwide. Ebell, who left the transition team last week, declined to discuss specific numbers of EPA staff that could be targeted for pink slips. Asked what he would personally like to see, however, Ebell said slashing the agency’s size by about half would be a good start. “Let’s aim for half and see how it works out, and then maybe we’ll want to go further,” said Ebell, who has returned to his position as director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The conservative think tank in Washington opposes “glob- al-warming alarmism” and receives a portion of its funding from corpora- tions and individuals that profit from the continued burning of fossil fuels. Ebell has long been a vocal critic of federal environmental regulations, which he claims are strangling the nation’s economy and impeding job growth. Though he kept specific recom- mendations he made to the White House confidential, Ebell suggested it was reasonable to expect the presi- dent to seek a cut of about $1 billion from the EPA’s roughly $8 billion annual budget. About half the EPA’s budget passes through to state and local governments for infrastructure projects and environmental cleanup efforts that Ebell said Trump supports. He said the cuts would likely fall on the remaining half the agency’s budget, which pays for agency operations and environ- mental enforcement. “President Trump said during the campaign that he would like to abolish the EPA, or ‘leave a little bit,”’ Ebell said. “I think the admin- istration is likely to start proposing cuts to the 15,000 staff, because the fact is that a huge amount of the work of the EPA is actually done by state agencies. It’s not clear why so many employees are needed at the federal level.” EPA has been roiled by turmoil during its first week under Trump, as members of the transition team issued what it has described as a temporary freeze on all contract approvals and grant awards. Trump’s representatives also instituted a media blackout, clamping down on media releases, social media posts and other external communications issued by career staff. AP reported Wednesday that Trump’s political appointees have been scrutinizing reports and data published on the agency’s websites for potential removal, especially details of scientific evidence showing that the Earth’s climate is warming and man-made carbon emissions are to blame. Ebell said Tuesday the purge is necessary because EPA’s leaders under President Barack Obama “politicized” global warming and allowed activists within the agency to publish “junk science.” “Undoubtedly the federal govern- ment has been staffed with scientists who believe the global-warming alarmist agenda,” said Ebell, whose academic credentials are in philos- ophy and political theory. Asked about Ebell’s comments, former Republican EPA Adminis- trator William K. Reilly cautioned calm, saying that often transition teams have little to do with what eventually happens in an agency. “I would tell the EPA staff that, in my experience, transition teams often have zero influence,” said Reilly, who ran the environmental agency under Republican President George H.W. Bush. “They shouldn’t be taken that seriously. They’re just ideologues. They don’t work for and are not even known to the incoming cabinet.” Trump’s nominee for EPA admin- istrator, Scott Pruitt, said during his Senate confirmation hearing last week that he disagreed with past statements by the president alleging Friday Morning PARENTS TALK BACK PBS ABC NBC CBS FOX January 27, 2017 Movies 6:30 AgDay Hot/ Cleve. Good Day Oregon at 6 News News KOIN 6 News at 6 a.m. Wake Up Northwest KGW News at Sunrise Northwest Northwest KATU News Morning Stretch W.L.Yoga (31) KTNW Jet Go! 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One Women: 400 years said, “I refuse to be of Dolls, Drudges, silent.” Helpmates and Heroines,” On the day of the march, which tells the stories of the they headed to the Metro women who have shaped station at 8 a.m. It was full our nation. Lucia spoke up when she of people, and their train heard Anne Hutchinson’s only became more packed at name. She had learned each stop. They were letting about Hutchinson in her people out in waves. The fifth-grade classroom. attendant had a bullhorn and “When we were talking was chanting, as well. about the colonies, she “It was so positive,” was in the workbook,” del Pilar said. She and her Lucia said. “She was one daughter met the rest of of the only women on their group and found a the list.” Hutchinson was space near the stage. The an outspoken leader and crowd around them swelled. midwife who challenged the Neither had ever been in a established New England crowd so large before. She Puritan patriarchy. She watched her daughter listen was tried, convicted and to speakers like Madonna, banished from the colony Ashley Judd and Gloria for her religious dissent. Steinem talk about women’s It was fitting car talk rights and equality. There for a mother and daughter were times the entire crowd participating in their first was dancing, and times they march, a female-led protest were pushed together by the against the new president crush of people. of the United States. Jessica A little before 3 p.m., del Pilar, 38, of Clayton, they started marching Missouri, took her daughter toward the White House. out of school for two days When some marchers to travel to the nation’s chanted, “What does capital for the Women’s America look like?” others March on Washington. responded, “This is what Crowd counts estimate America looks like!” 500,000 people marched Lucia was taking it all in. in D.C. — more than triple Del Pilar’s husband the estimated attendance texted her while they of the inauguration itself. marched, “I’m so glad you Nationally, it is said to have are there.” been the largest protest in She said that if she’d American history, with been looking for a larger political scientists estimating community that shared her between 3.3 to 4.8 million values of liberty and justice people participating in for all, she rediscovered it towns throughout the that day. That evening, they country. huddled around the table, But del Pilar had no amazed at the aerial images idea how it would turn out of marches from around the when she decided to drive country. 800 miles to D.C. with On the drive home to her daughter. During the Missouri, she and Lucia election cycle, she said, listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ every issue felt polarized “Between the World and to such an extreme. After Me,” a personal and political Donald Trump won and history of race in this del Pilar saw the reports country written as a series of of violence by some of his letters to his teenaged son. supporters, she wanted to They are still processing do something. His cabinet the events of the weekend. appointments only affirmed The march was the her resolve. beginning of the story for “I think it’s very them — a renewed start important for people of political engagement; a to understand (that) his source of inspiration that supporters don’t represent will continue to push them the whole country,” she forward. said. “I don’t want to be Participating in it was complacent in this moment. like reading the introduction I don’t want to pull back or to an epic anthology, del hide or just be hopeful that Pilar said. Until you read the everything will be OK.” entire book, you don’t truly Having grown up in understand it. Denver and lived in D.C., “This thing has yet to be she also felt a little isolated, written,” she said. away from family — a ■ transplant from blue cities Aisha Sultan is a St. to a red Midwestern state. 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