"Maybe the Biden-Harris administration shouldn’t have forced their radical agenda of wasteful DEI programs," the EPA said.

The grants were dedicated for projects meant to improve minority communities impacted by pollution, climate change and air ...

The Trump administration's gutting of diversity programs highlights a seeming paradox of vows to deliver clean air, land and ...

The council advised EPA administrators, integrated environmental justice into agency decisions and strove to improve public ...

The first few months of the new US administration have brought sweeping changes to the country’s environmental regulatory landscape. Through a ...

The EPA announced in March that it was ending its Environmental Justice Program and the agency’s “DEI Arms.” A few weeks later, the day before Earth Day, Hagen received notice that her ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is terminating nearly 800 grants meant to further “environmental justice,” the agency said in a ...

Congressman Newhouse calls for a federal probe into the EPA's ties with extreme environmental activists in Seattle.

In the first few months of the second Trump presidency, the Administration took steps to roll back environmental justice (EJ) considerations in federal decision making. This included a flurry of ...

But EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced last month he was canceling all the agency’s environmental justice grants, nearly 800 programs in total, including the Thriving Communities program.

Congress set the agency's responsibilities back in 1970 and always provided enough funding to fulfill them; now Congress must ...

The Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building houses the EPA Region 5 office in Chicago. All 18 environmental justice employees at the regional Environmental Protection Agency at that office have ...