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The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff ...
The EPA's Office of Research and Development has more than 1,500 employees, including scientists and researchers, dispersed ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating its Office of Research and Development (ORD), marking a significant ...
On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails saying they’d been assigned new ...
The Office of Research and Development produced the science underpinning regulations on everything from PFAS to pesticides to ...
The research and development office had been in the crosshairs of organizations allied with President Donald Trump.
The Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its scientific research arm, which provides the basis for decisions that ...
Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of ...
The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 ...
A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection ...
Environmental advocates say cutting the EPA's research office could have dire effects, especially when it comes to climate ...
Leaders were unable to answer questions as basic as when the office will close and how many workers will lose their jobs.