“We feel terrorized,” said one of the more than 20 current EPA employees who communicated with ProPublica about their experience of working at the agency under the second Trump administration. None said they planned to take up the offer to resign, a proposal that the agency said in numerous emails is open to staff until Thursday.

Environmental Protection Agency workers seem to be the first to receive a notice that they could be dismissed immediately

Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump's new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has sent threats to around 1,000 workers at the agency that they can be fired at any time, The New York Times reported on Monday.