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

I don’t think anyone was expecting such a complete gutting of those policy priorities,” said Jennifer Hadayia, executive director of Air Alliance Houston.

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,

Trump officials are moving fast to halt Biden-era programs on environmental justice — that is, addressing higher pollution burdens that poor people and communities of color often face. Why it matters: EJ was a priority for Biden's team,

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

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 Trump administration is poised to close the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice after more than 100 employees were placed on administrative leave on Thursday. Advocates and former EPA officials say the imminent closure will likely have lasting harmful impacts on Black,

EPA’s national office to aid long forgotten neighborhoods saddled with pollution, created with much fanfare during the previous administration, is in trouble. The bulk of its staff have been placed on administrative leave.