EPA Cuts Staff, Saves $750M in Major Reorganization
“In doing so, EPA conducted a Reduction in Force for 280 DEI and EJ employees and transferred 195 employees who perform statutory obligations and mission essential functions to other offices.”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday a sweeping reduction in force and reorganization effort that will save American taxpayers nearly $750 million. The move, part of a long-awaited course correction under President Trump’s leadership, aims to streamline the agency, eliminate progressive bloat, and restore the EPA’s focus on its original mission of protecting human health and the environment.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, EPA has taken a close look at our operations to ensure the agency is better equipped than ever to deliver on our core mission of protecting human health and the environment while Powering the Great American Comeback.”
The reorganization centers on dismantling the outdated and often politically weaponized Office of Research and Development (ORD), while standing up a new Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions. The new structure integrates hundreds of scientific and technical experts into core EPA programs for air, water, and chemical safety, placing science at the center of enforcement, not ideology.
“This reduction in force will ensure we can better fulfill that mission while being responsible stewards of your hard-earned tax dollars,” said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
The EPA’s workforce will be reduced from 16,155 to 12,448 through voluntary programs like the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) and early retirement. Over 3,200 employees have already applied—underscoring internal support for the agency’s new direction.
In one of its boldest steps yet, the EPA has formally eliminated the Biden-era Environmental Justice (EJ) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, which, according to the press release, often prioritized left-wing activism over actual environmental policy.
“In doing so, EPA conducted a Reduction in Force for 280 DEI and EJ employees and transferred 195 employees who perform statutory obligations and mission essential functions to other offices.”
These steps had stalled due to legal challenges from activist groups temporarily delayed the reforms. But after a July 8 Supreme Court ruling stayed a lower court injunction, the EPA moved quickly to resume its implementation plan.
Following a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction, the agency paused implementation of these restructurings. After the Supreme Court’s ruling on July 8 that provided a stay on the May 22 injunction, the agency moved forward to fill open positions that will advance the Trump Great American Comeback policies.
The application window for employees eligible under the DRP remains open until July 25.
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god bless lee
It all sounds good to me. I know many of you want the Agency disbanded but I believe there is a valuable place for it for the following reasons:
1) States can’t do the work.
2) Environmental pollution crosses state boundaries.
3) Protecting the citizenry is the core function of government.
What they need to do is stick to the science and resolve problems and not making up a solution and looking for a problem to apply it to (or create) which is how bureaucracies often operate to perpetuate themselves.
Indeed, stick to the original plan is always the best idea to start with.
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no need for the epa
when pollution crosses states line and the states wont work together on the solution then the legit way is to go to court
Id rather they have to go to court>>congress> court then another continuous tax funded agency
The EPA has not only embraced junk science for the last 50 years, but many employees see their mission as destroying industry, western society, and the middle class. It is made up of cranks and light-weight intellects.
Why isn’t plastic being incinerated for energy production for example, like it is in Honolulu. It not only generates 10% of the electricity, it rids the city of 50% of its waste and prevents tons of nano-plastic particles from ever be released.
Why is the EPA against this? CO2. They would rather kill and pollute America then release a benign gas.
Isn’t the EPA the agency that poisoned a river in the west, and also poo-pooed the East Palestine debacle? How about we cut it to . . . oh, I don’t know . . . zero?
Ok. So they dumped a few unneeded employees. How many are left and when are they going to go too?
DOT. EPA. DOJ, Dept of State…all headed in the right direction. None of this would have happened without Trump.
The purpose of the EPA is to chase manufacturing offshore. They can’t claim to be saving the planet because China and India are now doing far more global damage than the US ever did.
280 nonessential employees saved taxpayers $2.678 million each?