Washington, D.C. -- December 2019
Betsy Southerland, the former Director of the Office of Science and Technology in the Water program at the EPA, poses for a portrait outside of the Environmental Protection Agency’s offices in Washington, D.C. After retiring in 2017, Southerland wrote that the Trump administration “is seriously weakening EPA’s mission by vigorously pursuing an industry deregulation approach and defunding implementation of environmental programs.”
CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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