EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has issued a memo ending all “diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice offices and positions,” and the agency will close 10 of its Environmental Justice Divisions in regions around the country, which has critics arguing that this undermines the agency’s statutory responsibility to help communities of color who have suffered disproportionate harm.
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The EPA Is Dropping Climate Justice Investigations Left and Right
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