Thursday, July 3, 2025

The Trump regime is getting rid of EPA staff

At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:

Illegal, vindictive & abusive thuggery: EPA puts 139 employees on leave who criticized administration. The staff were put on administrative leave after signing a “declaration of dissent.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... ($) 1/

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— John Walke (@johndwalke.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c... πŸ§ͺπŸ€πŸ­πŸΆπŸ’πŸ¦§

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— AlbertaPitbull πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ (@albertapitbull.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM

A running theme on my reactions to news events these days is "Oh god, they are replacing something messy and fraught with something much worse." Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) (like the Social Cost of Carbon) is a complicated and ethically fraught metric. Setting it to zero doesn't help, tho...

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— Dan Hirschman (@asociologist.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM

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