The positions will be eliminated "immediately," according to a memo by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.

If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor and minority communities that face "disproportionately high levels of pollution.

The staffing reversal comes one month after the agency dismissed employees of the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.