On Earth Day, Bay Area EPA workers rally due to ‘constant threat of termination’
Under the shadow of a giant sculpture of a bow-and-arrow along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, more than 100 federal environmental workers and protesters gathered late Tuesday afternoon to send off an arrow of their own aimed at the Trump administration. They rallied in defense of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its mission, warning that the administration’s plans to dismantle it would significantly harm residents of the Bay Area. Many of the protesters work for the EPA’s Pacific Southwest office, a few blocks away, responsible for enforcing federal environmental laws throughout California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands and about 150 Native American tribes. … (A)s many as 60 employees received notifications Monday about looming staffing reductions and a reorganization.
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