Screenshot: Lee Zeldin / EPA Chief
President Trump’s EPA is cleaning house and will fire or reassign hundreds of workers involved in Marxist ‘environmental justice’ and DEI programs.
Joe Biden used the EPA to fund Marxist pet projects. In 2024, Biden’s EPA announced $1.6 billion in ‘environmental and climate justice community change grants.’
Biden’s EPA also secretly sheltered $20 billion at Citibank to be later disbursed to 8 far-left green ‘nonprofits.’
The Trump Administration is working to claw back the funds and dismantle the DEI programs.
Last month, the EPA announced it had terminated the Biden Administration’s Environmental Justice and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion arms of the agency.
“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people. Part of this mandate includes the elimination of forced discrimination programs,” said EPA Chief Lee Zeldin. “Under the Trump Administration, EPA is affirming our commitment to serve every American with equal dignity and respect.”
“Some believe that so-called ‘environmental justice’ is warranted to assist communities that have been left behind. This idea sounds good in theory and receives bipartisan support. But in reality, ‘environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities,” Zeldin added.
Axios reported:
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to fire or reassign more than 450 staffers working on environmental justice issues, it said Tuesday.
Why it matters: The large-scale changes could effectively end much of the EPA’s work tackling pollution in historically disadvantaged communities.
It’s part of the Trump administration’s effort to vastly shrink the federal workforce. EPA has around 15,000 employees.
Driving the news: EPA notified roughly 280 employees that they will be fired in a “reduction in force.” Another 175 who perform “statutory functions” will be reassigned.
The employees come from the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, the Office of Inclusive Excellence, and EPA regional offices.
“EPA is taking the next step to terminate the Biden-Harris Administration’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Environmental Justice arms of the agency,” a spokesperson said.
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