EPA places more than 160 environmental justice employees on paid leave
Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency executes the Trump administration’s executive order to wipe out all program offices it deems as tied to diversity,
Trump 2nd term live updates: EPA puts 11 DEI and 160 environmental justice staffers on leave
As President Donald Trump's second administration continued its effort to swiftly reshape the federal government, a union representing foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International Development accused the administration of failing to comply with last week’s temporary restraining order to prevent the dismantling of USAID.
EPA Begins to Put Environmental-Justice Workers On Leave
The move would unwind a Biden administration program to aid poor communities recovering from environmental risks.
7 Boston EPA staffers placed on leave for work on environmental justice and DEI
The Boston staffers are part of a nationwide sweep of EPA offices that put 168 workers on administrative leave this week. It follows President Trump’s executive actions calling for an end to equity, diversity and environmental justice programs.
EPA’s environmental justice office in tatters
EPA’s national office to aid long forgotten neighborhoods saddled with pollution, created with much fanfare during the previous administration, is in trouble. The bulk of its staff have been placed on administrative leave.
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Farmington Business Owner Gets 9-Year Federal Sentence for $3 Million Pandemic Fraud and Environmental Crimes
A Missouri man, Christopher Lee Carroll, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $3 million for ...
Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government
The administration plans to close the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office and remake the Justice ...
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Trump targeting showerheads, LED light bulbs in next environmental order
Trump posted Tuesday morning to his personal social media platform, Truth Social, that he was directing Environmental ...
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A former EPA assistant administrator on US environmental policy in the age of Musk and Trump
"If they try to enforce their anti-climate prejudice, they’re going to end up inevitably hurting people’s health as well." ...
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Trump funding freeze leaves long list of environmental projects at risk in New Orleans
Leaders of local nonprofits worry that they may have to make painful cuts. One said that if funding didn't start flowing, she ...
How environmental groups are battling the 1st actions of the Trump administration
Environmental nonprofits are gearing up to challenge the number of actions President Donald Trump has issued since he took office.
Trump funding freeze halts key environmental projects in Los Angeles area
President Trump’s freeze on federal spending has halted a $20 million project for new trees, including in Altadena.
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‘Environmental Justice’ Is the Latest Biden-Era Initiative To Be Purged by Trump Administration
When the consequences of the environmental justice movement mean fewer high paying jobs, then it's not justice,’ director for ...