EPA’s diversity adviser heads for the exit

EPA’s top diversity official is leaving the agency as federal inclusion efforts come under threat from the incoming Trump administration.

Christopher Carr, who is EPA’s first senior adviser for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA), is leaving the agency at the end of the year. His departure, although long planned, comes during a delicate time as President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to root out the Biden administration’s diversity push.

Carr is heading back to George Mason University, where he worked before joining EPA in 2022.

“It has been one of the greatest pleasures of my professional career to be able to serve our nation as the senior adviser,” Carr said in a statement.