The Trump administration has been making sweeping changes to staffing across the federal government, including at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Last week more than 160 employees who work on environmental justice issues at the EPA were put on paid administrative leave.

This includes staff in the Chicago office, which oversees most of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.

Chicago Sun Times reporter Brett Chase joins me now to discuss some of the changes at EPA and how that might affect some programs in the region

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