{"id":26834,"date":"2025-03-19T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=26834"},"modified":"2025-03-19T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:02:39","slug":"sen-ossoff-urging-trump-administration-to-reinstate-fired-officials-protecting-georgia-air-and-water-quality","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-urging-trump-administration-to-reinstate-fired-officials-protecting-georgia-air-and-water-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Urging Trump Administration to Reinstate Fired Officials Protecting Georgia Air and Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C.<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pushing President Trump to rehire Georgians responsible for air and water quality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff joined members of the Georgia delegation and other Southeastern members of Congress urging the Trump Administration to reinstate Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 employees who play a critical role in public and environmental health. EPA Region 4 is based in Atlanta, with divisions in Athens as well as Gulfport, Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReports indicate that EPA staff members have received emails indicating immediate dismissal due to their probationary status,\u201d Sen. Ossoff and the group wrote to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.<\/strong> \u201cWe are deeply concerned about the negative impacts such terminations\u2014done across the board without consideration for positional need or programmatic impact\u2014would have on the agency\u2019s ability to protect public health and the environment in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee and across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, in response to the Conyers BioLab fire, EPA Region 4 staff monitored air quality<\/a> to help keep local families safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe dismissal of employees at the EPA Region 4 offices threatens the health and safety of all states in Region 4 and will undermine ongoing efforts to monitor and improve air and water quality, manage hazardous waste, and restore the ecosystem of the largest freshwater system in the world,\u201d Sen. Ossoff and the group continued.<\/strong> \u201cWe urge you to consider the critical importance of these workers to the EPA\u2019s mission and the potential adverse effects these terminations have on public health and the environment in our Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect Georgia families from the harms of indiscriminate firings and funding cuts at Federal agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Sen. Ossoff urged<\/a> Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to unfreeze Federal funding for the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) program, which provides Federal funding to help urban areas strengthen public safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Sen. Ossoff slammed<\/a> the Trump Administration\u2019s cancelation of a Federal program that helps Georgia farmers sell fresh food to local schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Sen. Ossoff, Ranking Member of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, slammed<\/a> the Trump Administration\u2019s reported plans to fire over 80,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s letter to the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pushing President Trump to rehire Georgians responsible for air and water quality.  Sen. Ossoff joined members of the Georgia delegation and other Southeastern members of Congress urging the Trump Administration to reinstate Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 employees who play a critical role in public and environmental health. EPA Region 4 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26834","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26836,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26834\/revisions\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}