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.

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to responding to infectious-disease outbreaks.

The firings were part of a culling of roughly 3,600 probationary employees across the sprawling department that began earlier this week with terminations primarily at the Centers