EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump

The environmental protection agency has put 139 employees on administrative leave who signed a so-called “Declaration of Dissent” against the policies of the Federal Agency. Thursday’s action intervened after EPA employees said that the agency no longer targets its mission to protect human health and the environment. Their letter made public Monday represented rare criticism from the public on the part of the agency employees who knew that they could face a return of flame for having denounced a weakening of funding and federal support for climate, environment and health science programs. An EPA press release said Thursday that the agency had a zero tolerance policy for what it called career bureaucrats undergoing, sabotating and illegally sabotating the Trump administration agenda.