| | | Congressman 'Seeing So Many People Bail from NOAA and EPA' Over Climate 'Fear' - MORE WINNING!
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Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON – Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said many federal employees are leaving the Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over “fear” that the Trump administration is going to “suppress their viewpoints” or move them to irrelevant positions.
Beyer, ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Oversight, was asked if he would have full access to the “unfiltered” final version of the latest federal government report on climate change. The New York Times published a leaked draft of the report, which was submitted to the Trump administration for review.
“The majority members of my committee may get access to it if they ask for it. I don’t think it’s routinely shared with us. One of things that I was proudest about in government, whether it is Democrat-led or Republican-led, is when it’s transparent and, once again, I think the Obama administration did a very good job at transparency. (YOU NUTJOB LIAR!) The fear right now – I hope it is a needless fear, but clearly the people who leaked the report did not think so – was that a very important initiative like this put together by all these different agencies might never see the light of day, which is why it got leaked,” Beyer said during an discussion in Washington hosted by the United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
“Thank goodness it is in the public sphere and we can now look at it and fully take it apart. But, unfortunately, we are seeing so many people bail from NOAA and the EPA because they feel that they are in a position where the administration’s leadership is going to suppress their viewpoints or move them to a place where they are not relevant. I wish that were not true,” he added.
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