Re: “EPA to cut its scientific research office; many face job loss” (July 19, Nation & World):
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked”: Poet Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” captured what I felt when Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he is destroying the EPA because he wants to make it cheaper for industries to operate.
Over the years, I have known many earnest young scientists who chose to work in the public sector to help make the environment safe and resilient. Landing a job at the EPA was a plum. And now they will be tossed into the streets.
The fox is in charge of the henhouse — gutting regulations and cutting off the very science of people’s survival. This travesty must be resisted and the scientific research and scientists supported.
Working people need to claw back the power and orient government services to the public interest, for humane regulations for all, not profit for a few owners of industry and financiers.
Henry Noble, Seattle
