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EPA fires or reassigns hundreds working on 'environmental justice'

President Donald Trump's administration took aim at "environmental justice" programs at the EPA on Monday, eliminating hundreds of jobs.

Reuters on MSN · 2d

As Trump's EPA ends 'environmental justice,' minority communities may pay a price

By Ned Randolph and Daniel Trotta LAPLACE, Louisiana (Reuters) -From her home on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter and wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends and relatives whose lives were cut short by the disease.

The Washington Post on MSN · 3d

EPA to fire or reassign more than 450 staffers working on environmental justice, DEI

The decision to fire or reassign employees is part of Trump officials’ push to close the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

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Trump strikes at environmental justice backing for rules

The president instructed the Justice Department to repeal or amend EPA and other agency regulations that rely on ...

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EPA firing 280 staffers who fought pollution in overburdened neighborhoods

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fire 280 staffers who worked on tackling pollution in overburdened and ...

On Earth Day, EPA union workers decry cuts to clean air and water regulations

Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day, Environmental Protection Agency employees and advocates call for help as the ...

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Massachusetts governor bashes EPA asthma grant termination

Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is assailing the Trump administration’s cancellation of most of a $1 million EPA ...

EPA funding freeze could jeopardize vulnerable communities

Jill Tokuda U.S. representative, D-Hawaii A federally funded environmental justice project in Waianae has stalled since the Environmental Protection Agency froze a $3 million grant, halting efforts to ...

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EPA’s fight to freeze climate grants has ‘significant legal vulnerabilities,’ top attorney warned in email

The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to ...

E&E News4d

Trump EPA issues first layoff notices

The reduction in force plan affects staffers in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights and Regional ...

NationofChange4d

Trump administration dismantles pollution protections and deletes public data as EPA grants sweeping exemptions to industry

Environmental groups sue over deletion of climate and justice tools while polluters receive fast-tracked exemptions from EPA oversight.

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