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Trump Official Defends EPA Moves

An administration official says moves at EPA are just a standard part of the transition.
The Tularik Floodplain in the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska
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Until this week, the EPA communicated with the public through nine blogs, three discussion forums, 34 Facebook pages, 37 Twitter handles, two Medium accounts, a YouTube channel, a Pinterest page, numerous Widgets, a Wiki site, and Instagram, Flickr and Storify accounts.

That all came to a halt with the Trump administration’s arrival. A flood of news reports in recent days suggested that EPA climate web pages were being shut down, research funds were being slashed, and that press officers had been muzzled.

A key member of the Trump transition team says that much

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