The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so.

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    Because the best way to protect the environment is without utilizing science and research. Got it. Thanks glorious leader trump! We appreciate you cutting the fat.

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      To be fair, we didn’t have these huge spikes in things like CO2 and methane until we started measuring them, so maybe if we stop looking…let’s pass around the paper bags to put our heads into collectively.

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      Nah you protect the government from absolving them of having to find legitimate data that corroborated with the special interests.

      Now they can just get the tests and data directly from industry, who will self-report.

      What could possibly go wrong. Right, Boeing?