Trump administration environmental justice removals cut across agencies
Agencies leaders placed nearly 200 on administrative leave as they wound down programs at the Justice and Energy departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump's Push to End DEI Could Cut EPA's Environmental Justice Office
Staff with the EPA's Environmental Justice office were told they will be placed on administrative leave as the agency complies with President Trump's orders.
The Environmental Justice Movement Isn’t Going Anywhere — Even As It Faces Attacks by Trump
This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Under the Biden administration, the environmental justice movement had a historic platform to bring clean water and air to communities that have suffered from pollution.
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.
Trump administration expected to put EPA environmental justice and civil rights workers on administrative leave
Environmental Protection Agency employees who work in the environmental justice and civil rights office expect a new round of paid leave notices that will impact even more federal workers, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Trump cuts Environmental Justice Office putting Black communities at greater risk of pollution
How many times do we have to prove that clean water and air isn’t a given when you’re Black in America?” former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official Dorien Paul
Trump Administration Cuts Environmental Justice Programs at EPA, DOJ, Sources Say
The Trump administration has placed on leave over 100 employees who work on environmental justice programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, and is pursuing staff reductions in similar programs at the Justice Department,
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 Department’s environmental division.
At least 160 EPA staffers put on leave, leaders cite Trump DEI order
The Trump administration placed at least 160 Environmental Protection Agency employees on paid leave Thursday evening effective immediately.
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,
Michigan environmental projects threatened as EPA job cuts create 'perfect storm'
EPA's Region 5 is headquartered in Chicago and includes Michigan and other Great Lakes states. Cuts to the EPA's Office of ...
Indonesia orders the halting of tourism projects linked to Trump over environmental issues
Officials say Indonesian authorities have ordered the halting of development of a tourism project affiliated with U.S.
Trump Is Inheriting an Environmental Disaster
PFAS could be the rare environmental issue that gets addressed this term.
Orgs demand action to mitigate AI’s environmental harm
A group of more than 100 organizations has published an open letter calling on the AI industry and regulators to mitigate the ...
22 states sue New York, alleging environmental fund is unconstitutional
Twenty-two states sued New York on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay ...
Environmental services firm Triumvirate sold in $1.8 billion deal
Chief executive John McQuillan will remain in charge at the Somerville waste-disposal company, under the new ownership of ...
Entrepreneur wins environmental innovation award
An entrepreneur has won an award for a product that recycles excess phosphates in waterways to be used as fertiliser. Jane ...
Bondi scraps Biden-era environmental justice enforcement policy
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a memo Wednesday that the Justice Department will reverse a Biden-era directive to ...