The federal administration is in the midst of a rapidly launched, blunt-force effort to hack back spending and staffing at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It’s an alarmingly clumsy approach for an agency that regulates and remediates pollution, including fossil fuel emissions, inadequat ely treated sewage and “forever chemicals,” such as those released in the Red Hill fuel tank storage catastrophe. In Hawaii, the EPA has helped fund replacement of diesel-spewing municipal buses with zero-emission (electric) models, prevented the release of sewage or contaminants into Hawaii’s waters and funded myriad projects to address air, soil and water pollution. ...read more read less