"If they try to enforce their anti-climate prejudice, they’re going to end up inevitably hurting people’s health as well."

The Trump administration has placed on leave nearly 200 employees who work on environmental justice programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, and is pursuing staff reductions in similar programs at the Justice Department.

Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency executes the Trump administration’s executive order to wipe out all program offices it deems as tied to diversity,

Agencies leaders placed nearly 200 on administrative leave as they wound down programs at the Justice and Energy departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The move would unwind a Biden administration program to aid poor communities recovering from environmental risks.

The office, created in 2022 by President Joe Biden, was the culmination of years-long work by the EPA to address the disproportionate impact of environmental harms on minority and

The administration plans to close the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office and remake the Justice Department’s environmental division.