Trump’s War On Climate Science Is A War On The Poor And People Of Colour
“Ali’s resignation after 24 years with the agency came with an open letter to Scott Pruitt, the current EPA head. Pruitt supports majorly downsizing the agency, and has filed suits for years to minimise the EPA’s ability to regulate pollutants and sue penalising companies. Ali wrote that the impact on the agency’s ability to do either will ‘will be magnified ten-fold in our most vulnerable communities’. Ali felt that Pruitt’s commitment to curtailing US federal authority isn’t reflective of his own agenda or priorities for applying climate science. ‘Mine have always been focused on finding ways of helping our most vulnerable communities,’ he told Gizmodo.”