On July 18, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out the “reorganization plan” for its Office of Research and ...

Environmental advocates said the deregulation effort is unparalleled in the EPA’s 54-year history. “This is crazy.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the employee moves on Monday, saying 280 staffers were being fired, and 175 others would be reassigned. The cut roles were in the Office of Environmental ...

Former leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents spoke Friday against the Trump administration's announcement this week that it will ...

The Trump administration plans to reconsider about two dozen environmental rules, in what the Environmental Protection Agency calls the "most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history." ...

The environmental justice office had a mission of integrating equity and civil rights into environmental policymaking, and protecting low-income and minorities most at risk from air and water ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Environmental Protection Agency sent termination notices on Tuesday to staff who work on environmental justice programs at its headquarters and across regional offices ...

Announcing big changes to environmental rules doesn't undo facts on the ground overnight. Instead, EPA's announcement is the first step in what is likely to be a lengthy process to remake the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will proceed with a reduction in force targeting its environmental justice staff, according to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg Law. The memo, dated ...

EPA begins layoffs of environmental justice staff By Valerie Volcovici April 22, 20259:08 AM PDTUpdated April 22, 2025 ...

Such goals, they say, will cripple the EPA and impede environmental and climate action long before changes to any of the rules might happen — if they ever do. Indeed, less than a week after the ...

So, environmental justice is an ideology that infuses concerns about identity—especially race—into the preexisting ideology of environmentalism, which is empowered in the case of the EPA by ...