EPA Staff Yanked From Alaska Summit as Trump Team Weighs In
- Alaska environment forum focusing on climate impacts to state
- Critics see worrisome pattern in administration’s moves
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Just three days before this week’s environment conference in Alaska, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in Anchorage called the organizer with some news: The agency had been instructed by the White House to slash the number of EPA staffers who could attend.
"We’ve never had this happen before," said Kurt Eilo, who has organized the Alaska Forum on the Environment for 19 years. The annual gathering brings together 1,800 people from native communities, government agencies and the public to discuss climate-related issues, including melting permafrost and risks to villages from rising seas.