In a decisive move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently put nearly 170 employees from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Justice Unit on administrative leave. This unit ...

"If they try to enforce their anti-climate prejudice, they’re going to end up inevitably hurting people’s health as well." ...

The Trump administration has placed on leave nearly 200 employees who work on environmental justice programs at the ...

Former EPA regional administrators worry the actions will unravel decades of work protecting public health from pollution.

Advocates and former EPA officials say the imminent closure will likely have lasting harmful impacts on Black, brown and poor ...

On January 14, 2025, the Biden administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a last-minute “interim” decision in the ...

At the center of legal challenges against Trump's executive actions is whether he's telling federal agencies to violate a key legal standard established nearly 80 years ago.

President Donald Trump’s early executive actions have rescinded environmental justice initiatives dating back more than 30 years as a part of the ...

Universities that do breakthrough-level studies are scrambling to understand the effects as their funding agencies slash ...

The EPA's 168 environmental justice workers join other EPA workers who have been notified their jobs are in jeopardy.

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 ...