{"id":69870,"date":"2026-03-24T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/us-public-health-groups-urge-firing-of-epa-boss-zeldin-saying-he-brazenly-betrayed-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:39","slug":"us-public-health-groups-urge-firing-of-epa-boss-zeldin-saying-he-brazenly-betrayed-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/us-public-health-groups-urge-firing-of-epa-boss-zeldin-saying-he-brazenly-betrayed-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"US public health groups urge firing of EPA boss Zeldin, saying he \u2018brazenly betrayed\u2019 agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates say Lee Zeldin\u2019s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at risk<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 160 environmental and public health organizations on Tuesday called for Lee Zeldin, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/epa\">Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)<\/a> administrator, to resign or be fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo [EPA] administrator in history \u2013 Democratic or Republican \u2013 has so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">brazenly<\/a> betrayed the agency\u2019s core mission,\u201d the groups wrote in an <a href=\"http:\/\/gameoverzeldin.com\/\">open letter<\/a>. \u201cEPA\u2019s foremost purpose is to protect human health and the environment. With Administrator Lee Zeldin at the helm, EPA has abandoned its mission, creating damage that will take decades to address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/mar\/24\/fire-epa-zeldin-public-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates say Lee Zeldin\u2019s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at risk Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox More than 160 environmental and public health organizations on Tuesday called for Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, to resign &#8230; <a title=\"US public health groups urge firing of EPA boss Zeldin, saying he \u2018brazenly betrayed\u2019 agency\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/us-public-health-groups-urge-firing-of-epa-boss-zeldin-saying-he-brazenly-betrayed-agency\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US public health groups urge firing of EPA boss Zeldin, saying he \u2018brazenly betrayed\u2019 agency\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}