EPA Terminates Nearly 400 Workers Amid US Government Purge

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(Bloomberg) – The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it launched 388 workers, which is part of a wave of termination throughout the federal government this week, which was paid by the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency in Elon Musk.

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The agency added that the test workers have been completed after a “comprehensive review of the agency's jobs, according to President Trump's executive orders.”

“The Environmental Protection Agency followed the protocols and standard procedures, ensuring the affected employees received a notice of their status,” the agency said in a statement. “President Trump was elected with a mandate to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans, and we do so completely.”

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Federation officials and environmental groups said that the decision will lead to Urnns, the agency's jobs, which touch the air, water, chemical and biofuels regulations almost every American economy – from huge oil refineries to family farms.

“These are people we need,” said Nicole Cantilo, head of AFGE 704, a federation that represents about 1,000 EPA employees in the Great Lakes, including some who have been published to help clean them in the wake of southern California fires in southern California. . “We do not think it is justified and we do not think it is necessary.”

The termination follows a guidance from the Personnel Management Management Office directing the agency to the test staff, which usually indicates the people who started work during the past year. Other parts of the government that reduced workers this week include up to 2000 from the Ministry of Energy, as well as workers in small business administration, public services management and financial consumer protection office.

The last separation of the Environmental Protection Agency comes at the 168th GO Go Way Summit last week from the agency's environmental justice office, which was closed after an executive order from the White House to the end related to diversity, equality and integration.

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“The people who shot him today are civilian employees who are dedicated, and they were elected to perpetuate their career to protect air, clean water, and the environment, and to ensure that our next generation and home are safe from toxins, pollution and other harm,” Sierra. ” Statement.

Actor Jared Hoffman of California, the largest democracy in the Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives, said in a previous statement on Friday that 3400 employees were rejected from the American Forest Authority and 2,300 from the Ministry of Interior.

In a text message on Friday night about Fire Fireings, Hoffman said: “There will be environmental, health and safety consequences for this, and Trump and the empowerment factors of the Republican Party will possess.”

(Updates with Hoffman's comment, in the final paragraph.)

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