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The elimination of the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights by Administrator Lee Zeldin, aimed at complying with Trump’s executive order to end DEI programs, has sparked concern. The office was pivotal in advancing environmental justice and supporting poor and working-class communities.
