The White House’s plan to dismiss EPA employees during the government shutdown, which is currently blocked by a federal judge, included 21 staffers in the agency’s land cleanup section and six in its chemicals office, according to a filing in a lawsuit against the administration.
The information, submitted by Krysti Wells, chief human capital officer at the Environmental Protection Agency, was required by Tuesday under a preliminary injunction that temporarily froze the reductions in force. Wells said the EPA plans to comply and “will not proceed with any RIFs prohibited by the Order,” while it remains in force.
The 21 ...
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