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The agency won’t say whether it’ll enforce national drinking water standards for the chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency has informed more than 450 employees working on environmental justice and diversity, equity and inclusion that they will be fired or reassigned, according to an ...
In fact, laws passed by Congress require the EPA to use the “best available science” in many decisions about regulations, permits, cleaning up contaminated sites and responding to emergencies.
President Donald Trump's administration is firing or reassigning over 450 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a larger push to eliminate "environmental justice" programs.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fire 280 staffers who worked on tackling pollution in overburdened and underserved communities and will reassign another 175. These staffers worked ...
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is canceling a year-old museum dedicated to the EPA’s history — citing its $315-per-visitor cost to operate. The museum ...
In a notice sent late Monday, the EPA said it laid off 280 employees while an additional 175 will be reassigned to other offices within the agency. The layoffs in the Office of Environmental ...
As part of President Trump's pledge to unleash American energy, Zeldin announced in March that the EPA would reconsider rules across a number of sectors, including regulations on power plants ...
Trump administration withdraws lawsuit against chloroprene-emitting plant Grants are slashed along with EPA's environmental justice and DEI programs New EPA chief says US can protect the ...
Speaking to reporters on Monday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who was appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump, acknowledged "there are communities that have been left behind that need help ...
Almost 300 EPA employees face the threat of layoffs as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign to eradicate programs tagged with a connection to diversity, equity and inclusion.
EPA rebuffed attempts to make public its initial downsizing and reorganization plan submitted for White House review. Following a Freedom of Information Act request for the “Phase 1” plan ...