The EPA's 168 environmental justice workers join other EPA workers who have been notified their jobs are in jeopardy.

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

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,

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By Valerie Volcovici, Sarah N. Lynch and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration has placed on leave over 100 employees who work on environmental justice programs at the Environmental Protection Agency,

More than 200 people work for EPA’s environmental justice programs in the agency’s headquarters in downtown Washington and across its 10 regional branches. The environmental justice office is also responsible for administering $3 billion in grants under the Inflation Reduction Act.

WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration has placed on leave nearly 200 employees who work on environmental justice programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, and is pursuing staff reductions in similar programs at the Justice Department.

EPA’s national office to aid long forgotten neighborhoods saddled with pollution, created with much fanfare during the previous administration, is in trouble.