<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration has warned hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staffers that they could be fired &#8220;immediately.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The email was sent to more than 1,100 employees hired within the past year who have probationary status, including new hires and employees who took new roles at the agency, according to </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-epa-workers-zeldin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The notice went out within days of the Senate confirming Trump’s pick to lead the agency, former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">EPA spokeswoman Molly Vaseliou said the goal of the email was to be “transparent” about the agency, according to the Times.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“On his first day in office, he engaged directly with career staff across E.P.A.’s headquarters — spanning two city blocks in downtown D.C. — listening to their insights and perspectives,” Vaseliou said. “Ultimately, the goal is to create a more effective and efficient federal government that serves all Americans.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one of his first actions as EPA administrator, Zeldin is traveling to East Palestine, Ohio, with Vice President JD Vance on Monday to inspect the site of the train crash and chemical spill that upended life in the small town two years ago.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zeldin plans to carry through on Trump’s pledge to end remote work at the agency. It’s a move that could also shrink the size of government if employees opt to leave their federal jobs instead of returning to full-time office work. Most federal workers have already been offered a buyout to resign their roles now and be paid through September.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I believe the COVID remote work era is over,” Zeldin told </span><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/03/lee-zeldin-hits-the-ground-running-at-epa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daily Signal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “It’s time to come back into the office and collaborate and to be productive in a way that the American public can be proud of to the max.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The EPA office in Washington, D.C., sits largely empty, according to the new administrator.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And it wasn’t that I just passed by an office or two. I went through an entire wing where no door was open and no one was inside. I went to other offices where there were lots of people there, working hard,” he recalled. “We’re occupying a beautiful, historic, massive building. And we shouldn’t have hallways that are this quiet. The American people pay us to work for them.”</span></p>

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