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Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.
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82% Informative
President Trump has made ending diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs a hallmark effort of his second term.
The EPA has boasted about cutting more than $22 billion in environmental justice and DEI grants and contracts.
Environmental justice has been part of EPA ’s mandate for years but greatly expanded under the Biden administration.
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82
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80
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54
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semi-formal
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English
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72
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not offensive
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not hateful
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short-lived
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00150-3https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/universities-medical-research-funding-frozen-trump-diversity-purgehttps://gridphilly.com/blog-home/2024/06/01/grid-talks-with-professor-and-author-dorceta-taylor-about-how-communities-of-color-became-ground-zero-for-toxic-industries/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-zeldin-nypost-so-long-bidens-environmental-justice-scams-teamhttps://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-epa-boss-expects-to-cut-65-percent-of-staff/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/us/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-explainedhttps://sustainability.yale.edu/explainers/yale-experts-explain-environmental-justice
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