President Joe Biden’s sweeping climate agenda could be in jeopardy due to something seemingly mundane: deadlines. As The New York Times reports, the Environmental Protection Agency is struggling to stick to a rapid timeline for enacting critical regulations before they become vulnerable to Republican opposition in the coming years.
A big reason for the predicament is the guy who occupied the Oval Office before Biden. Donald Trump’s hostility to scientific research, and to the environment, led to the agency hemorrhaging huge numbers of staffers, and now Biden is paying the price for it. It’s a reminder of how one of the more overlooked legacies of the Trump era — the hollowing out of vital federal government bureaucracy — could deal a blow to the government’s ability to fulfill its duties and carry out lifesaving policies for generations.
According to the Times report, more than 1,200 scientists and policy experts left the EPA during the Trump administration as Trump…
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