Protect The Great Lakes

Turtle

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Retired Expediter
My point is, your question assumed something that is not at all established. In fact, the linked article established just the opposite.

There could many reasons why next year's budget tentatively has a zero budget for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, not the least of which is to force the EPA to justify that amount of money, and/or instead ask for the actual amount actually needed to accomplish the GLRI goals, especially if (as you will see below) the Chicago office actually grows instead of being shuttered, since an even bigger budget for the Chicago office will then be necessary.

The Clean Water Act standards that protect safe, clean drinking water that Trump rolled back haven't actually been rolled back, and likely won't be for years, almost certainly taking longer than a single presidential term, despite the "OMG he's the devil incarnate and the sky is falling" implication efforts and well-reasoned opinions of Howard Learner, Executive Director of Tree Huggers International, and Environmentalist Barbie, a.k.a, Mary Gade. These two dweebs pushed aside REAL NEWS and instead preferred the FAKE NEWS, and then wrote an opinion piece about it as if it were real, all in the name of furthering their political agenda. And then a Gannet newspaper, which knows better, printed it anyway.

And in likewise "OMG, sky falling, Devil dood" fashion of the ridiculous notion of closing down the 1000-employee EPA Region 5 office in Chicago and moving all that to Lenexa, KS (Kansas City) isn't even true. It's all a rumor, started by Nicole Cantello, a lawyer for the union representing the region’s EPA employees. Trump's budget blueprint shows that it wants to close two regional offices and consolidate its regulatory activities into other offices, and has set a deadline of June 15 to identify the offices that might be considered to be closed and which offices they would be absorbed into. Not a single office is mentioned anywhere in the budget blueprint for possible closure.

One quick look at the map of the EPA Regional Offices and it doesn't take much to figure out where consolidation should take place. Far more likely than closing up the Chicago Region 5 and moving it all to Kansas would be to close the Boston Region 1 office and consolidate it into Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands) and probably close Philly's Region 3 office and incorporate PA into Region 2, and VA and WV into Region 5 or Region 4, or some combination of the two, with DE, MD and DC consolidating into Region 2, as well.

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Ragman

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
My point is, your question assumed something that is not at all established. In fact, the linked article established just the opposite.

There could many reasons why next year's budget tentatively has a zero budget for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, not the least of which is to force the EPA to justify that amount of money, and/or instead ask for the actual amount actually needed to accomplish the GLRI goals, especially if (as you will see below) the Chicago office actually grows instead of being shuttered, since an even bigger budget for the Chicago office will then be necessary.

The Clean Water Act standards that protect safe, clean drinking water that Trump rolled back haven't actually been rolled back, and likely won't be for years, almost certainly taking longer than a single presidential term, despite the "OMG he's the devil incarnate and the sky is falling" implication efforts and well-reasoned opinions of Howard Learner, Executive Director of Tree Huggers International, and Environmentalist Barbie, a.k.a, Mary Gade. These two dweebs pushed aside REAL NEWS and instead preferred the FAKE NEWS, and then wrote an opinion piece about it as if it were real, all in the name of furthering their political agenda. And then a Gannet newspaper, which knows better, printed it anyway.

And in likewise "OMG, sky falling, Devil dood" fashion of the ridiculous notion of closing down the 1000-employee EPA Region 5 office in Chicago and moving all that to Lenexa, KS (Kansas City) isn't even true. It's all a rumor, started by Nicole Cantello, a lawyer for the union representing the region’s EPA employees. Trump's budget blueprint shows that it wants to close two regional offices and consolidate its regulatory activities into other offices, and has set a deadline of June 15 to identify the offices that might be considered to be closed and which offices they would be absorbed into. Not a single office is mentioned anywhere in the budget blueprint for possible closure.

One quick look at the map of the EPA Regional Offices and it doesn't take much to figure out where consolidation should take place. Far more likely than closing up the Chicago Region 5 and moving it all to Kansas would be to close the Boston Region 1 office and consolidate it into Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands) and probably close Philly's Region 3 office and incorporate PA into Region 2, and VA and WV into Region 5 or Region 4, or some combination of the two, with DE, MD and DC consolidating into Region 2, as well.

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Thank you for clearing that up.......


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