“EPA has terminated 388 probationary employees after a thorough review of agency functions in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders," EPA spokesperson Molly Vaseliou said in a statement. Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it had fired 388 workers, part of a wave of terminations across the federal government this week spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, on Friday said it has terminated 388 employees hired over the last two years. EPA spokesperson, Molly Vaseliou made this disclosure in a statement on Friday Vaseliou said the termination exercise will align its workforce with President Donald Trump’s energy dominance policy agenda.

The Trump administration is bringing in a new top official to lead EPA’s enforcement office on an acting basis. Jeffrey Hall, previously a partner at Burke Law Group, is joining the agency as principal deputy assistant administrator in its Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance,