Fired EPA EJ Staffers Bring Class-Action Complaint To Special Counsel

Nearly 170 EPA employees who worked on environmental justice (EJ) issues are bringing a class-action complaint to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OCS), arguing the agency’s decision to place them on administrative leave is wrong and that they should be reintegrated into the EPA workforce with new assignments. The April 11 complaint says the 168 workers from the now-shuttered EPA Office of Environmental Justice & External Civil Rights (OEJECR) are in limbo, after they were placed on paid administrative...