STATEMENT FROM CAC’s MARGIE ALT ON EPA FIRING ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE EMPLOYEES

For Immediate Release

February 27, 2026

Contact: Gabrielle Levy, glevy@cacampaign.org, (562) 673-6974

STATEMENT FROM CAC’s MARGIE ALT ON 

EPA FIRING ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE EMPLOYEES

WASHINGTON-This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent notice to 22 employees in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights notifying them their position was being eliminated. This comes after the Trump administration  slashed the environmental justice office in August 2025, sending reduction-in-force notices to at least 50 employees at that time.

This action is just the latest move by the administration to push its Polluters First Agenda. They treat Americans’ as if our lives and health were expendable and they are further endangering already vulnerable communities. Margie Alt, director of the Climate Action Campaign, released the following statement:

“Once again, the Trump administration demonstrates that its allegiance is not to our families and communities, but to polluters. These staff were working  in the pursuit of environmental justice. Their efforts were making a difference for some of the nation’s most vulnerable populations that often experience the impact of climate change and other pollution most acutely. This  administration treats Americans as expendable.  To them we are just stepping stones, on their path to  enrich its allies and pay off political favors.  

“The state of the EPA under Lee Zeldin is grim, especially after the recent decision to make climate change denial the official policy of the nation and their new policy of not valuing human lives and health in their analyses . The dangers of climate pollution are real and immediate, and this continued dismantling of the EPA, an agency tasked with protecting our country and the people in it, proves that its leaders have no regard for our lives.”

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