The Environmental Protection Agency will shutter its main scientific research division and implement mass layoffs, officials ...

A new study by NYU Langone Health researchers found that the shutdown of a significant fossil fuel pollution source near Pittsburgh, PA, resulted in immediate improvements in respiratory health. The ...

In a statement on Friday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said that the mass layoff and office closure will still allow the ...

On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it will eliminate the Office of Research and Development and reduce its ...

Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, the union representing 8,000 EPA ...

Total staffing at EPA will go down to 12,448, a reduction of more than 3,700 employees, or nearly 23%, from staffing levels in January when Trump took office, the agency said.

The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency would be eliminating its Office of Research and Development and start firing hundreds of biologists, chemists, toxicologists and other scientists who help ...

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.

A union representative for the employees is objecting to a survey in which the workers must now disclose if they signed the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision Friday to eliminate its scientific research arm drew horrified responses ...

You can’t put a number on the lives that it has saved. Now Trump and Zeldin are killing it,” said one physician. The U.S.