After Trump Administration Closes DOJ’s Office of Environmental Justice, Advocates Worry About Future Enforcement

Inside Climate News · By Kristoffer Tigue · last updated February 15, 2025 – 12:02 AM

Set up in 2022, the office teamed up with federal prosecutors to coordinate work in vulnerable communities. The Trump administration shut the office and placed its staff on leave earlier this month.

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Department of Justice’s Office of Environmental Justice is puny by federal agency standards. But advocates have said for years that it punches well above its weight.

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