More than 1,100 staff members at the Environmental Protection Agency got notice this week that they were deemed to be on probationary status and cautioning they might be fired immediately, according to an email obtained by CNN.

Probationary employees getting the e-mail have been operating at the agency for less than a year. The e-mails began to go out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official.

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