“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen,” write current and former EPA employees. “We need to hold this administration accountable.”

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

“The worst outcome I feared is happening,” says Matthew Tejada, the former director of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, reflecting on changes the Trump administration has brought to the agency.

The president said Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, was planning mass layoffs. Agency officials said the cuts would make it impossible to carry out their mission.

​I ran the US Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice program for almost 11 years. It’s not what this presidential administration says it is.

YouTube video by Senator Markey

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

Official Bluesky account of New York Attorney General Letitia James' Office

A federal judge has paused a sweeping new plan from the Trump administration to halt categories of federal spending.

The president’s executive orders seek to turn our collective clock back to an era of inequality and freeze it in place for our future.

Mr. Regan informed agency employees that he would leave before the formal end of the Biden term.