In the News

Jeremy Symons, Senior Adviser to EPN, was quoted in CBS News about Trump’s plans to cut 65% of EPA’s workforce and how this will only benefit corporate polluters.

Jeremy Symons, Senior Adviser to EPN, was quoted in Politico about Trump’s plans to cut 65% of EPA’s workforce.

Michelle Roos was also quoted in Inside Climate News about budget and staffing cuts, saying, “A 65 percent cut would gut the agency and bring EPA to the lowest level of staffing since EPA was created in 1970, when the skies were dark with smog, toxic rivers caught fire and pollution was a leading cause of premature death.”

Michelle Roos was quoted in The New Lede about Trump’s original remarks to cut EPA staff by 65%. His team later clarified that they plan to cut EPA’s spending by 65%, not the workforce.

Michelle Roos was also quoted in Politico about Trump’s original remarks to cut EPA staff by 65%. His team later clarified that they plan to cut EPA’s spending by 65%, not the workforce.

Zealan Hoover, former Senior Advisor to EPA Administrator and Director of Implementation, was quoted in Time about how those benefitting from EPA grant funding are those most overburdened by pollution and how these populations span communities of all demographics.

EPN was mentioned in the Sierra Sun Times as a signee of a letter to the House of Representatives, imploring representatives to vote against the house budget resolution.

Tracey Woodruff, former EPA Senior Scientist and Policy Advisor, was quoted in The Washington Post about black plastic being unsafe when consumed at any level, despite EPA’s claims of safety at higher levels.

Jeremy Symons, Senior Adviser to EPN, was also quoted in The Michigan Public about how the laid off EPA employees in Region 5 “… are the superheroes along with first responders and everyone who mobilizes when disaster strikes.”

Michelle Roos; David Cash, former Regional Administrator, Region 1; and Denny Dart, former Environmental Engineering Manager, Region 1, were quoted about layoffs at EPA, which will affect the enforcement of environmental statutes, and the on-again off-again uncertainty surrounding EPA grants that has put hundreds of projects in jeopardy.

Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office for Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, wrote an opinion piece in Environmental Health News about the value of environmental justice in EPA.

Zealan Hoover, former Senior Advisor to EPA Administrator and Director of Implementation, and Jeremy Symons, Senior Advisor to EPN, were quoted in Planet Detroit about EPA firing hundreds of employees in Region 5 but then reversing the firings for some. 

Stan Meiburg, former Acting Deputy Administrator, was quoted in E&E News about Trump’s Executive Order Canceling the Presidential Management Fellows program, a prestigious program that prepares young people to understand and serve in the federal government.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, former EPA Senior Advisor and Assistant Associate Administrator; Stan Meiburg, former Acting Deputy Administrator; and Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, Office of Research and Development, were quoted in The Hill about the firings of probationary employees and the consequences it will have on EPA and the Department of Interior.

Lisa Garcia, Former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 2, was quoted in Politico about cuts to EPA’s workforce and how Musk’s goals of cutting back the federal workforce undermines Trump’s goals of environmental deregulation.

Michelle Roos was quoted in Inside Climate News about how grantees are struggling to get updates from EPA as EPA employees are forbidden from talking with outside entities.

EPN was mentioned in WSOC-TV about the estimated amount of federal funding that has been put on pause in North Carolina, specifically from programs for electric school buses, energy affordability programs, and pollution control.

Stan Meiburg, former Acting Deputy Administrator, was a guest on the Often Wrong podcast to discuss how we typically approach environmental disasters and the discourse surrounding them.

Zealan Hoover, former Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator and Director of Implementation, was quoted in Politico about the firings of probationary EPA employees and how this will slow down Trump’s efforts to fight waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government.

Stan Meiburg, former Acting Deputy Administrator, was quoted in Politico about a House Republican effort to define EPA’s authority in one bill and the likely bipartisan disagreement the bill will have if brought to the floor.

Joe Goffman, former Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Zealan Hoover, former Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator and Director of Implementation, and Stan Meiburg, former Acting Deputy Administrator, were quoted in Politico about an EPA-specific pause on federal funding to analyze for fraud, waste, and abuse, which officials said was separate from Trump’s broad executive order that has been blocked by courts.

Michelle Roos was quoted in the Houston Chronicle about the $400 million Solar for All funds that remain frozen allocated for Texas energy projects.

Michelle Roos was quoted in Planet Detroit about community groups that received EPA grants but are unable to draw down funds from the government reimbursement platform, ASAP, to continue their projects.

Michelle Roos was quoted in NPR about how subcontractors and consultants will be less interested in working for federally funded projects because of the frozen funding, leaving community groups without critical expertise.