EPA to eliminate 1,228 employees by August - including dozens of scientists

Though 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is a real threat — one that poses risk to the wildlife, environment, and humans, the Trump administration maintains that global warming fueled by unsustainable habits is a “hoax.” As a result, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Scott Pruitt, has taken a massive hit. In addition to scrubbing climate science from the agency’s website, the EPA has ignored advice from agency scientists while issuing regulatory decisions....