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IcyPeas

(23,383 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:43 PM Mar 18

Musk team targets nearly two dozen environmental offices for closure in California

cross posted in GD

(LA Times article via yahoo)

President Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency plans to terminate lease contracts at nearly two dozen California offices relating to science, agriculture and the environment, according to its federal database.

The planned closures include facilities occupied by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, National Park Service, Forest Service and Geological Survey. The terminations follow massive layoffs at NOAA and significant cuts to scientific research funding across federal agencies — including the potential elimination of the EPA's key scientific research arm.

The Trump administration has said the lease terminations will provide considerable cost savings for the American people. The DOGE website lists nearly 800 lease locations slated for closure across the country, totaling more than 10 million square feet and about $500 million in savings. The database does not provide specific addresses or information about what the buildings are used for.

As of Monday, 65 locations on the list were in California, and 22 of them — or about 35% — are home to agencies that help manage, protect and preserve the Golden State's environment.

The move also aligns with Project 2025, a conservative platform document that calls for the dismantling of NOAA, the National Weather Service and other federal environmental agencies described as "main drivers of the climate change alarm industry." Although the president has publicly distanced himself from the plan, many of his policies have lined up with its recommendations.



Please read the rest in the link:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-targets-nearly-two-dozen-100011588.html

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Musk team targets nearly two dozen environmental offices for closure in California (Original Post) IcyPeas Mar 18 OP
...and here I thought CA would be "safer" lol FirstLight Mar 18 #1
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Mar 18 #2

FirstLight

(14,814 posts)
1. ...and here I thought CA would be "safer" lol
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:45 PM
Mar 18

Newsom is having the nazis on his podcast, is he going to actually protect us from the Fed govt?

I fear this is just the beginning, and we're gonna be targeted instead...

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