Several employees signed the letter, which decried the EPA’s direction under President Donald Trump. DULUTH – The Environmental Protection Agency put at least six employees of its Duluth lab on leave recently after they signed a letter of dissent aimed at the Trump administration’s environmental policies.

WASHINGTON -Employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently placed on leave after signing a letter critical of the Trump administration's policies should be reinstated, said a union official in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday.

A union for employees at the Environmental Protection Agency is demanding the agency reinstate workers that were placed on leave for signing a letter critical of the Trump administration’s