The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly planning to cut all environmental justice offices, according to a memo from agency administrator Lee Zeldin.
In the internal memo, reviewed by The New York Times, Zeldin wrote that he was directing “the reorganization and elimination” of environmental justice offices in all 10 regional EPA branches, in addition to the office in Washington D.C. First established under former President George H.W. Bush, the environmental justice offices have been criticized for the “unchecked waste of taxpayer funds,” and grants that were funneled to far-left organizations.
The offices’ mission was to “protect overburdened and underserved communities from the harm caused by environmental crimes, pollution, and climate change,” according to its website that has since been scrubbed from the internet.
In a March 2 letter, the EPA…
