Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story EPA cuts or reassigns hundreds of environmental justice employees The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The decision to fire or reassign employees is part of Trump officials’ push to close the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

On March 12, the new EPA unveiled what it called "the most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history" by rolling back 31 initiatives and eliminating the agency's DEI arm a