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EPA Terminates Nearly 400 Workers Amid US Government Purge

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it had fired 388 workers, part of a wave of terminations across the federal government this week spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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Trump administration terminates 388 EPA staff

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it has terminated 388 employees hired over the last two years to align its workforce with President Donald Trump's "energy dominance" policy agenda.

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Trump taps EPA enforcement leader

The Trump administration is bringing in a new top official to lead EPA’s enforcement office on an acting basis. Jeffrey Hall, previously a partner at Burke Law Group, is joining the agency as principal deputy assistant administrator in its Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance,

EPA, Seek and Clawback

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

EPA Chief Says He Will Seek Return of $20 Billion in Clean-Energy Grants Awarded by Biden

In a major reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he'll try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean-energy projects

Bloomberg on MSN · 1d

EPA Seeking to Claw Back $20 Billion in Climate Law Grants

The Environmental Protection Agency will attempt to claw back some $20 billion in funding for climate projects awarded under President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday evening,

Washington Examiner on MSN · 1d

EPA looks to claw back $20B in ‘gold bars’ given to climate groups

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to claw back around $20 billion in grant funding approved for climate projects under the Biden administration’s signature Inflation Reduction Act. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced the move in a video shared on X on Wednesday evening,

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EPA Funding Freeze Forces Cuts to Clean-Energy Job Programs

Billions of dollars Congress approved for clean energy and efficiency projects are still in limbo despite court orders ...

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EPA and DOE move to roll back Biden efficiency standards for home appliances

The Environmental Protection Agency and Energy Department announced actions to undo and postpone standards for certain home appliances that were implemented by the Biden administration. EPA ...

Zeldin: Biden EPA Was Shoveling Boatloads Of Cash To Left-Wing Activist Groups In The Name Of Environmental Justice

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency has found billions of taxpayer dollars ...

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EPA Cuts Workforce to Align with Trump’s Energy Dominance Plan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has cut 388 employees who were hired in the last two years. This workforce ...

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Former EPA Officials Blast Effort to Rescind Climate Funds, Calling It a Political ‘Smokescreen’

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is aiming to take back money intended for clean energy projects in disadvantaged communities ...

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‘Targeted and belittled’: scientists at US environmental agency speak out as layoffs begin

President Donald Trump and his team view the Environmental Protection Agency as a threat to US prosperity. Workers have been ...

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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 ...

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Detroit Evening Report: EPA’s Chicago office faces major cutbacks + more

The Trump administration has made significant cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 5 office in Chicago.

As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America's most toxic sites are uncertain

For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...

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'The purge has begun.' Environmental justice workers locked out of EPA Seattle office

Nine Environmental Protection Agency employees in Seattle have been put on leave by the Trump Administration because they ...

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Trump team digs in, finds millions of wasted dollars at EPA, HUD with DOGE help

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said his team canceled a $50 million Biden-era environmental justice grant to a group that ...

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