Restore the EPA's Environmental Justice Enforcement

In 2025 the EPA abolished its environmental justice and civil rights office, including all 10 regional offices, and cancelled the $2.8 billion community block grant program, which is now tied up in court.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 24, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter Environmental Justice Why some communities carry more pollution, and the rollback

The Letter

Subject Fund Pollution Enforcement in the Hardest-Hit Communities

Some neighborhoods breathe far more pollution than others, and it is not by accident. Neighborhoods the government redlined in the 1930s breathe about 56% more nitrogen dioxide today. One census tract in Louisiana's Cancer Alley had the highest modeled cancer risk from air toxics in the country.

In 2025 the EPA abolished its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, including all 10 regional offices. Those were the staff who investigated pollution that falls hardest on these communities and ran the grants for air monitors and lead-pipe replacement.

I am asking you to fund environmental justice and civil rights enforcement staff at the EPA in the next EPA spending bill. No family should breathe dirtier air because of where a map put them.

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I'm calling about the 2025 cuts to environmental justice enforcement at the EPA.
The EPA abolished the office, and all 10 regional offices, that investigated pollution in the hardest-hit communities.
Neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s breathe about 56% more nitrogen dioxide today.
Please fund environmental justice and civil rights enforcement staff at the EPA in the next EPA spending bill.
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The Facts Behind the Ask

10 EPA regional environmental justice offices shut down in 2025, along with the national office (source)
56% more nitrogen dioxide breathed in formerly redlined neighborhoods today than in formerly greenlined ones, across 202 cities (source)
2,000 in a million modeled lifetime cancer risk near the Denka plant in Louisiana, the highest census-tract risk in the country in EPA's 2014 assessment (source)

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