EPA Employees Caught In 'Frivolous Investigation' After Criticizing Trump

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Source: Huff Post

Jul 8, 2025, 04:42 PM EDT


The union representing workers at the Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that the Trump administration reinstate more than 100 workers who were placed on administrative leave for criticizing the agency’s leadership.

The EPA said it is investigating 139 employees who had signed a public “declaration of dissent” addressed to Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator. The letter condemned Zeldin for focusing on “harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise” as the administration loosens environmental standards.

Justin Chen, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, which represents 8,000 agency employees, said the union was still waiting for the agency to provide a full list of the workers placed on leave. He called the administration’s move “retaliatory in nature” and a possible violation of federal whistleblower rights.

“We believe this is a frivolous investigation and have demanded that these individuals be returned to regular [work] status,” Chen told HuffPost. He said sending a letter to the boss offering a critique of leadership was a matter of “protected speech.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-employees-administrative-leave_n_686d6cb1e4b041f69cfd4c98

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1. There is no more protected

Speech in this country. That's one of the reasons so many of us leave our mobiles at home when we march and rally. These rights and liberties we once had are no more by fiat of our dictator and his butt kissing judges. IMO

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2. Criticism of the Regime is not allowed.

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3. Locking.

This is a LBN dupe. Please continue discussion in this earlier thread.