Widely fired Of scientists of the Ministry of Agriculture has thrown important research at the disturbance, according to the former and present employees of the agency. Scientists are fired in projects to improve crops, protect against pests and diseases and understand the impact of climate of farming activities. The dismissal also threatens to weaken billions of dollars of taxpayers to farmers to support conservation activities, experts warn.
The firing of USDA is part of the Trump administration's mass shooting, mainly aimed at those who are in their probationary period before reaching a full -time position, for USDA scientists. Can up to three years. The agency did not publish accurate shooting data, but they were estimated to include hundreds of employees in important scientific areas and a report. 3,400 staff In the forestry department.
The staff were notified that they shot in an email sent on February 13 and was seen by Wired. Agencies find, based on your performance, that you did not prove that your part -time job at the agency will have public benefits, email.
A fired employee described the weeks before shooting was Chaos Chaos, because USDA stopped (to respond To order from Trump administration) and then not used (to deal with the Court's orders) the work related to the Act of Inflation Reduction (IRA), the Landmark 2022 Law was adopted according to President Joe Biden, dedicating a quantity Large federal money for climate policies. This is just a pause, no, pause, no. After four or five working days, I was thinking, I really could not accomplish anything, he said, former employee, who worked in Ira associated projects and asked anonymously to Bao Bao The guardians from being punished.
Ira has provided USDA $ 300 million to help quantify carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. This amount is planned to support the $ 8.45 billion allowance for farmers authorized in Ira to be spent on the plan to encourage environmental quality (EQIP) to encourage farmers to receive receiving. Practice has potential environmental interestsSuch as covering and storing waste better. At least one contract -funded contract -based farming project has been paused by the Trump administration, Reuters report.
Emily Bass, Federal Policy Director, Food and Food of EQIP and other billion -dollar conservation programs, Emily Bass, Federal Policy Director, Food and Food and Food Products and foods and foods and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food and food are also agriculture at the Center for Environmental Research Breakthrough Institute. This work has been partially performed by the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and agricultural research services (ARS), two of the scientific agencies that are heavily affected by the dismissal Bang.
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It is a ton of taxpayers and the quantitative work of ARS and NRC is an essential part of measuring the actual impacts of those programs for reducing emissions, according to Mr. Bass. The efforts to stop or the hamstring halfway are a huge waste of resources that have been spent.
A current ARS scientist, who talked to the anonymous Wired, because they were not allowed to talk to the press, claiming that at their unit, nearly 40 percent of scientists was fired with the same with With many support staff. Many projects of their units are currently disturbed, scientists said that even the work was planned in the five -year cycle and requires close monitoring of plant samples. In a short time, we can keep that document exist, but we don't necessarily have to do it indefinitely if we have no one in that project.