The Department of Justice has announced that its Civil Rights Division will immediately close an “environmental justice” matter.
Effective immediately, the division said it would terminate the environmental justice settlement agreement that stemmed from the investigation launched by the previous administration targeting Lowndes County, Alabama.
This announcement follows President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14151, ‘Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing’, which forbids federal agencies from pursuing programs or initiatives related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including those related to “environmental justice.”
“The DOJ will no longer push ‘environmental justice’ as viewed through a distorting DEI lens,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Dhillion added, “President Trump made it clear: Americans deserve a government committed to serving every individual with dignity and respect and to expending taxpayer resources in accordance with the national interest, not arbitrary criteria.”
The closure is another step the Trump administration has taken to eradicate illegal DEI preferences and environmental justice across the government and in the private sector.
The DOJ is working quickly to close such cases in compliance with the Attorney General’s directive.
