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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 ...
Environmental advocates say cutting the EPA's research office could have dire effects, especially when it comes to climate ...
Total staffing at EPA will go down to 12,448, a reduction of more than 3,700 employees, or nearly 23%, from staffing levels ...
Pollution causes more illness and early death than any other environmental threat, accounting for one in six deaths worldwide ...
The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic ...
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating its Office of Research and Development (ORD), marking a significant ...
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.
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 ...
A union representative for the employees is objecting to a survey in which the workers must now disclose if they signed the ...