The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week terminated more than two dozen remaining staffers in the now-defunct Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), advancing the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the environmental justice initiatives of the president’s Democratic predecessors.

A Reduction In Force, or RIF, notice obtained and reviewed by Inside Climate News was sent to affected employees on Monday, July 25. The three-page memorandum, issued by Associate Deputy Administrator Travis Voyles, lays out the legal basis for the layoffs.

“You will be separated from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The decision to conduct a RIF has been made pursuant to Executive Order 14151, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Prefer

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