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- ABC News
- January 4, 2019
In second week, shutdown impacts more Americans
Tourists, federal workers and businesses are all feeling the shutdown's impact.
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So @wtop if you’re looking for a new angle for local shutdown impact, I’d mention that you can’t get a DC marriage license. I doubt my wedding is the only one caught in this problem! #GovernmentShutdown
— Claire O'Rourke (@ClMORourke) January 2, 2019
Lost time to plan environmental cleanups
Loreen Targos, an EPA scientist and steward for her local union chapter, said environmental cleanup or protection projects will be delayed because of the shutdown. She said EPA staff can't meet with partners to design projects to clean up environmental contamination or prevent future environmental problems.
\"When we lose weeks like this we have to catch up and there's just huge delays in projects, and taking them into the next year or after,\" Targos said in a phone interview Monday, adding that it's impossible to know the extent of the impact until long after the shutdown ends.
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She said all Americans are hurt with projects intended to protect health and the environment are delayed, but it will be impossible to know the impacts until long after the shutdown ends. Targos said she and other EPA workers are passionate about protecting Americans from environmental issues before it becomes a problem, and because of the shutdown they're unable to do that.
\"People feel like 'I don't know how this impacts me,' that's because we were doing our job,\" she said.
ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett and Beatrice Peterson contributed to this report.
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