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The Trump EPA is telling some staff to stop policing the oil and gas industry
The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a ...
N.J. public workers, who say work site is contaminated, receive layoff notices
All six employees of Roselle Park Department of Public Works would be affected by Rice Notices they received Friday, ...
Judge Pauses State Dept. Plans for Mass Layoffs
In the ruling, Judge Matthew J. Maddox of the Federal District Court in Maryland said that the law only allowed Mr. Trump to ...
US judge blocks State Department's planned overhaul, mass layoffs
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Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Days after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his ...
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Trump administration gives layoff notices to environmental justice staff at regional EPA
All 18 environmental justice employees at the regional Environmental Protection Agency at that office have received layoff notices. All 18 environmental justice employees at the regional ...
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Trump administration gives layoff notices to environmental justice staff at regional EPA
All 18 environmental justice employees at the regional Environmental Protection Agency office in Chicago have received layoff notices. It’s part of the Trump administration’s efforts to close ...
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‘Another broken promise’: California environmental groups reel from EPA grant cancellations
President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has canceled nearly 800 environmental justice grants awarded ... which had already hired two new employees to help implement the project and ...
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EPA moves scientists, hints at staff cuts
It said that these employees would work on approving ... Chitra Kumar, a former official in the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, said the agency’s Office ...
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EPA shifts scientists toward approving new chemicals — and hints at future staff cuts
It said that these employees would work on approving ... Chitra Kumar, a former official in the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, said the agency’s Office ...
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As EPA’s Environmental Justice Employees Lose Their Jobs, New York Community Groups Pay the Price
The federal agency’s environmental justice ... to EPA employees and community groups who spoke with City Limits. EPA employees and members of the union for federal government workers at an April 22 ...
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Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
“It feels like (environmental justice ... part of an employee’s salary. It has not received an official notice of termination for the grants. In an internal email sent to EPA staff, which ...