The number of staff put on leave is significant, relevant to the office's size, and "leaves the environmental justice program at EPA on life support," says Matthew Tejada, formerly deputy ...

Employees of the EPA's DEI office were placed on administrative leave on Jan. 22, once the executive order went into effect. Staffers with the Office of Environmental Justice were informed their ...

“Career staff made determinations on which Office of Environmental Justice employees had statutory duties or core mission functions,” EPA spokesperson Molly Vaseliou said in a statement.

More than 160 environmental justice employees at the EPA are impacted nationwide, according to an internal EPA email obtained by CNN and confirmed by employees who were on the agency call and have ...

A majority of employees who work in the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been put on paid leave effective immediately. They all work on environmental justice issues ...