Yesterday, news broke that a memo from Lee Zeldin, the new administrator of the EPA, directed the agency to eliminate all offices that focus on environmental justice. These offices, part of each of EPA’s 10 regional offices,

As part of the Trump administration’s end to environmental justice programs, the waste industry no longer has access to EJScreen, a monitoring tool used to track environmental justice metrics near facilities.

An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.