DOJ to Probe California EPA Over Racial Equity Practices
28th August 2025
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) over the department’s focus on racial equity when hiring, promoting and retaining employees.
The government on Wednesday sent a letter to the agency claiming that CalEPA “may be engaged in employment practices that discriminate … based on race, color, sex, and national origin” due to a document titled “Practices to Advance Racial Equity in Workforce Planning,” which advocates for diverse interview panels and for “applying a racial equity lens to every phase of workforce development.”
“In publicly available guidance documents, CAL EPA highlights ‘hiring, promotion and retention practices and policies’ that indicate it may be using protected characteristics to ‘advance racial equity,'” the letter stated. “Further, [the California Air Resources Board] CARB, a division of CAL EPA, appears to use these policies to engage in discriminatory employment practices in its ‘Racial Equity Framework,’ which aims to advance race-based decision-making within the agency.”
Trump is obviously going to keep the pressure on Blue States to eradicate as much DEI nonsense has he can. Once he breaks the seeming right-side-of-history inevitability of Wokeness, we might be able to keep things on a more even keel … but it will take work and constant vigilance.
Remember, Trump hasn’t even finished his first year of this term. I suspect that Democrats are going to become very tired of losing before he passes the torch in 2028.