Clearly, President Donald Trump learned a few lessons during his first term.
Trump 2.0 has unleashed hell, and his administration is targeting for destruction anything that is or resembles a redoubt for liberal activism in the federal government.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), its eco-activists, and the agency’s climate cultists are now in the crosshairs. This week, the newly refocused agency announced plans to close all its environmental justice offices, including 10 regional offices and the central office in Washington, D.C.
The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according to a memo from Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator.In the internal memo, viewed by The New York Times, Mr. Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization and elimination” of the offices of environmental justice at all 10 E.P.A. regional offices as well as the one in Washington.
These “environmental justice” offices were established initially under President Bill Clinton in 1994. Approximately 170 employees are impacted.
EPA will shutter the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, the Environmental Justice Division within all EPA regional offices and the Office of Inclusive Excellence within the Office of Mission Support.Zeldin said those actions would bring EPA into compliance with President Trump’s executive order to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion—and environmental justice—efforts across government.That order tasked agencies with initiating [reduction in force] RIFs for employees working in those positions. EPA previously said it was placing 171 employees in those offices on administrative leave.“With this action, EPA is delivering organizational improvements to the personnel structure that will directly benefit the American people and better advance the agency’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment,” Zeldin said in his Tuesday memo.
The mainstream media is undermining this move, by asserting that Zeldin’s move effectively ends all sorts of “good work” protecting poor communities.
It actually stops racial discrimination in implementing pollution prevention measures. The closures will also mean staffing, materials, and funding will be directed at what is supposed to be the EPA’s primary emission: protecting the environment from air, water, and land pollution.
Zeldin notes that there is a mandate for this move.
“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people,” Zeldin said in a statement provided to CBS News. “Part of this mandate includes the elimination of forced discrimination programs.””Our goal at EPA is going to be to remediate these environmental issues directly,” Zeldin told CBS News at a press availability. “We’re not going to discriminate. We’re not going to make people give us 1000 questions about their their background in order to qualify for support, we want everyone to qualify for support.”
And while the press might be unhappy, many of us who have followed the EPA’s antics over the years are giddy with joy.
DEI has polluted the fair and effective governance of this nation for the best interest of the American people. I hope the government remediation project continues at this swift and effective pace.
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