EPA down at least 733 staffers since January
Source: The Hill
06/03/25 3:50 PM ET
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is down more than 700 career staffers so far this year, the agency told The Hill. An EPA spokesperson said that as of Jan. 1, the agency had 17,080 staffers, while as of May 30, it has 16,347 — a loss of 733 people.
Some of these departures were already publicly known, as the agency announced in April that it was firing 280 staffers who worked on “environmental justice,” an issue area that tackles pollution in overburdened and underserved communities, including communities of color.
But that means an additional 450 people have left the agency since the start of the year. An EPA spokesperson said the figure may not include the most recent applications for early retirement, since those are still being processed.
Staffers who are still on the agency’s payroll but are on leave — either because they opted to take the “fork in the road” buyout or because they are a probationary worker whose fate is pending in court — are counted as still being on staff in the figure provided by the agency. Further cuts likely loom at the agency as the Trump administration as a whole seeks to shrink the size of the government through reductions in force.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5331075-epa-down-staffers-trump-zeldin/
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