EPA staff responding to hurricanes and wildfires in 2017 were delayed by federal agencies’ confusion over their roles, and ran out of first aid kits, bottled water and other supplies, according to an internal report obtained by Bloomberg Environment Dec. 11.
The Environmental Protection Agency evaluated its responses to Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma, as well as wildfires in California last year. President Donald Trump called the government’s response to Hurricane Maria an “incredible, unsung success” in a White House briefing Sept. 11.
But the EPA report, dated September 2018 and obtained through the Freedom of Information ...
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