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[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022025/epa-would-shrink-to-1970-staffing-levels-when-the-skies-were-dark-with-smog-under-proposed-plan/ by Marianne Lavelle 26/2/25 Inside Climate News] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022025/epa-would-shrink-to-1970-staffing-levels-when-the-skies-were-dark-with-smog-under-proposed-plan/ by Marianne Lavelle 26/2/25 Inside Climate News] | ||
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. | 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. | ||
=====The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s===== | |||
[https://grist.org/science/lost-history-climate-1960s-clean-air-act-supreme-court/ by Kate Yoder 5/8/24 Grist] | |||
In 2007, when the court ruled that the Clean Air Act of 1970 gave the Environmental Protection Agency the flexibility to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, former Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “When Congress enacted these provisions, the study of climate change was in its infancy.” Writing a dissent in a 2022 case looking at similar questions, Justice Elena Kagan argued that back in 1970 when Congress created the act, legislators gave the EPA the flexibility to keep up with the times, tackling problems (i.e., climate change) that couldn’t be anticipated. | |||
