Dumping Environmental Justice From the EPA Is a Good Step. Now Dump the EPA.
If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor and minority communities that face "disproportionately high levels of pollution.
Under Musk-Trump, We Need Environmental Justice More Than Ever
Musk and Trump have gutted federal environmental justice programs. Here’s what's at stake and how we’re fighting back.
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
How Trump’s environmental justice cuts at EPA could affect California
The Trump administration’s plan to shutter the Environmental Protection Agency’s programs on equity and justice could cripple efforts to curb pollution in California’s most disadvantaged communities,
EPA eliminating environmental justice jobs
The positions will be eliminated "immediately," according to a memo by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.
EPA Plans to Close Environmental Justice Offices, Leaving Communities to Face Pollution Alone
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,
EPA cites DEI as it preps to shutter environmental justice offices
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate offices that handle environmental justice issues, like pollution in poor neighborhoods and communities of color. It’s part of a wider crackdown on Biden-era climate policies.
Trump to dismantle crucial environmental justice offices
The Trump administration is set to eliminate environmental justice offices that address pollution in low-income and minority communities across the US.
EPA shuts down 10 environmental justice offices, axes EJ division
It's the latest move by the Trump administration to undo long-standing efforts to confront pollution-exposure inequities.
Grants to clean up drinking water in red states could get axed under Trump
As the EPA takes steps to shut down environmental justice programs, community grants across the country are on hold.
The Trump Administration’s Environmental Pile-On
Environmental justice was patching over gaps in federal law that allowed for zones of concentrated harms.
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Criminal targeting of environmental groups ‘scary,’ advocates say
Groups now worry about FBI probes as they struggle to rebound from federal spending freeze enacted under President Donald Trump.
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NYDEC Announces New Environmental Justice Requirements under SEQRA and UPA
Continuing its growing initiatives to protect environmental justice communities, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation ...
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In Chicago, an Environmental Organization Feeds a Community
Thanks to LVEJO, areas once considered toxic sites are a wellspring for food, culture, and ancestral knowledge.
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Braun’s new orders prevent ‘environmental justice’
Gov. Mike Braun signed two executive orders on environmental policy, preventing Indiana from adopting “environmental justice” ...
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EPA grants for air pollution monitoring, cooling kits and A/C units in Pa. and Del. terminated
In a termination letter, the EPA said it is ensuring its grants do not support programs promoting “DEI” or environmental justice initiatives.
EPA launches full assault on environmental protection
If there can be such a thing as bureaucratic “shock and awe,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin tried to unleash it Wednesday. He unveiled the Trump administration’s widely ...