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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin is "eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice offices and positions immediately," according to screenshots of an internal memo obtained by CBS News.
The move means the Environmental Justice Divisions within 10 EPA regional offices will be reorganized and eliminated. EPA headquarters already closed its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights in D.C. and placed 168 employees on administrative leave, although it did reinstate a handful of those people.
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will shut down all environmental justice offices and officially end other EJ-related initiatives, a move that will impact how waste and recycling industries measure and track their environmental impact on neighboring communities.
The closures include the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, created during the Biden administration to work directly with communities on EJ-related issues. The announcement followed a decision from the U.S. EPA to cancel numerous grants meant to fund environmental justice projects.
The agency has quietly shut down other EJ-related tools in recent weeks, notably EJScreen, an open-source mapping and screening tool waste companies use to track environmental justice factors, such as health and socioeconomic data, near facilities.