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

State officials say they’ll fight for environment “with or without the federal government,” but critics are skeptical.

The agreement between the EPA and Colorado illustrates how the state has benefited from strong federal oversight even when it ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has rescinded two Biden-era memos that had state agencies consider social and ...

The staffing reversal comes one month after the agency dismissed employees of the Office of Environmental Justice and ...

Launched under the Clinton administration, the environmental justice offices aimed to shield disadvantaged communities from ...

EThe Trump administration is cancelling or defunding a number of initiatives that have been investing in environmental and ...

The worst outcome I feared is happening,” says Matthew Tejada, the former director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin took to social media Monday to announce the cancellation of over 400 ...

Citing ‘radical DEI programs,’ the Department of Justice has dismissed a 2023 EPA lawsuit against Denka Performance Elastomer ...

And it has demolished federal work on environmental justice, which dates back to the George H. W. Bush administration. As part of its purge of so-called DEI initiatives, the administration put 160 ...

The center was set up in 2023 as part of former President Joe Biden’s emphasis on addressing communities with ...