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EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
This EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it
The Office of Research and Development produced the science underpinning regulations on everything from PFAS to pesticides to lead.
EPA eliminates its scientific research arm
The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.
EPA’s research and development office eliminated; thousands laid off
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
Trump administration shuts down EPA's scientific research arm
The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic chemicals, climate change, smog, wildfires, water pollution and more.
Trump administration moves to eliminate EPA's independent science organization
After a Supreme Court ruling allowed it to continue with widespread layoffs of federal employees, it moved to eliminate the Office of Research and Development, the EPA’s independent science arm. We discuss what that would mean with H.

EPA shutters its scientific research arm, with hundreds of scientists expected to be impacted

The EPA's Office of Research and Development has more than 1,500 employees, including scientists and researchers, dispersed ...

The Trump administration is gutting EPA's research arm. Can California bridge the gap?

Officials with a small but mighty California agency known as the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment said they ...
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EPA announces layoffs and eliminating research and development

The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating its Office of Research and Development (ORD), marking a significant ...

EPA cuts its scientific research office, as layoffs set to take effect

The research and development office had been in the crosshairs of organizations allied with President Donald Trump.
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Employees Kept in the Dark as EPA Dismantles Scientific Research Office

Leaders were unable to answer questions as basic as when the office will close and how many workers will lose their jobs.

Bipartisan senators seek to prevent Trump from cutting EPA science research office

A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection ...
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EPA closure of scientific research division has Cincinnati employees 'holding their breath'

The Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its scientific research arm, which provides the basis for decisions that ...

EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office

On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails saying they’d been assigned new ...

Vintage photos show how American cities looked before the EPA regulated water and air pollution

Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.