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EPA Would Shrink to 1970 Staffing Levels—‘When the Skies Were Dark With Smog’—Under Proposed Plan

Inside Climate News · By Marianne Lavelle · last updated
Trump presented EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s plan at a cabinet meeting devoted to a massive rollback in the size of the federal government.

By Marianne Lavelle

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would slash 65 percent of its workforce under plans that its administrator, Lee Zeldin, has discussed with the White House, President Donald Trump said Wednesday at his first cabinet meeting.

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