The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being sued for age and race discrimination in a class-action lawsuit pending before Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The complainants allege that the EPA denied training opportunities, promotions, and other learning assignments to employees over the age of 40 because of their age and race, while granting preferential treatment, larger raises, expedited promotion, and opportunities to younger employees and recent hires.

“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be held accountable by compensating those employees who have been harmed by EPA’s unwritten and illegal policies of age and race discrimination,” said Steven M. Spiegel, the attorney for the class of plaintiffs.