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Trump strikes at environmental justice backing for rules
The president instructed the Justice Department to repeal or amend EPA and other agency regulations that rely on ...
EPA firing 280 staffers who fought pollution in overburdened neighborhoods
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fire 280 staffers who worked on tackling pollution in overburdened and ...
EPA funding freeze could jeopardize vulnerable communities
Jill Tokuda U.S. representative, D-Hawaii A federally funded environmental justice project in Waianae has stalled since the Environmental Protection Agency froze a $3 million grant, halting efforts to ...
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Massachusetts governor bashes EPA asthma grant termination
Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is assailing the Trump administration’s cancellation of most of a $1 million EPA ...
EPA’s fight to freeze climate grants has ‘significant legal vulnerabilities,’ top attorney warned in email
The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to ...
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Trump administration dismantles pollution protections and deletes public data as EPA grants sweeping exemptions to industry
Environmental groups sue over deletion of climate and justice tools while polluters receive fast-tracked exemptions from EPA oversight.
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Trump EPA issues first layoff notices
The reduction in force plan affects staffers in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights and Regional ...
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April 20, 2025PBS News Weekend full episode
Sunday on PBS News Weekend, the Easter truce falters as Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of launching hundreds of attacks. What the elimination of the EPA’s environmental justice offices could ...