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EPA Terminates Nearly 400 Workers Amid US Government Purge

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it had fired 388 workers, part of a wave of terminations across the federal government this week spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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Trump administration terminates 388 EPA staff

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it has terminated 388 employees hired over the last two years to align its workforce with President Donald Trump's "energy dominance" policy agenda.

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Trump taps EPA enforcement leader

The Trump administration is bringing in a new top official to lead EPA’s enforcement office on an acting basis. Jeffrey Hall, previously a partner at Burke Law Group, is joining the agency as principal deputy assistant administrator in its Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance,

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EPA chief seeks return of $20 billion in clean-energy grants awarded by Biden

Administrator Lee Zeldin said the Environmental Protection Agency will try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration.

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EPA chief seeks to claw back $20 billion in climate funding

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to end contracts agreed by the previous administration to distribute $20 billion in grants to fund clean energy and transportation projects in disadvantaged communities,

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EPA clawing back more than $20 billion in Biden’s last-minute spending on climate justice

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he’s working to retrieve billions of dollars the Biden administration frantically shoveled to green energy and climate justice projects in the months before President Trump took office.

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EPA Funding Freeze Forces Cuts to Clean-Energy Job Programs

Billions of dollars Congress approved for clean energy and efficiency projects are still in limbo despite court orders ...

EPA banking on a fight over ‘gold bars’

Back to the EPA money The two grant programs that Zeldin targeted are the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund, or ...

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EPA fires ‘probationary’ employees

“EPA has terminated 388 probationary employees after a thorough review of agency functions in accordance with President Trump ...

As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America's most toxic sites are uncertain

For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...

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Trump team digs in, finds millions of wasted dollars at EPA, HUD with DOGE help

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said his team canceled a $50 million Biden-era environmental justice grant to a group that ...

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Zeldin’s $20B take-back bid risks plunging EPA into legal peril

The new EPA chief wants to claw back cash from a Biden administration green banking program. It could spur a court fight.

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Trump Gives EPA One Week to Decide on Abandoning Climate Pollution Regulation

President Trump ordered EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to decide by next week whether the agency could abandon its authority to ...

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EPA and DOE move to roll back Biden efficiency standards for home appliances

Americans deserve access to the best products in their homes, and appliances like shower heads and lightbulbs that work,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said.

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Cuts at EPA's Chicago office could impact Michigan's emergency response efforts

Michigan environmental advocates say news of major cuts and layoffs at the EPA's Chicago office could lead to trouble for our ...

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