When attorney Nicole Cantello went to work for the Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, she never imagined she’d wind up speaking at public rallies or giving interviews to reporters.
“I spent 25 years being a happy bureaucrat working behind the scenes,” Cantello says. “I never talked to the press, never spoke at a rally. But they’ve dragged us kicking and screaming into the public arena.”
It was Pruitt’s nomination that spurred Cantello and other EPA employees to action.
Chase, Campello, and their cohort are most worried about Trump’s proposed budget cuts and recently signed executive orders. Let’s take the budget cuts first.
Chase fears that Trump’s proposal to ax about $2.6 billion—or nearly one-third of EPA’s budget—would drastically undercut future emergency operations like the one in Flint.
Furthermore, Scalia argued that the feds should only be allowed to regulate wetlands that had a “continuous surface connection” to rivers and other waterways. In other words, water you could see.
