[CPEO-BIF] "EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[While the mass media obsesses over the Epstein files, most TV news outlets have ignored the Trump Administration's elimination of EPA’s Office of Research and Development, which will be catastrophic for public health and the environment. - LS]

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

BY  MATTHEW DALY
Asssociated Press

July 19, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

The agency’s Office of Research and Development has long provided the scientific underpinnings for EPA’s mission to protect the environment and human health. The EPA said in May it would shift its scientific expertise and research efforts to program offices that focus on major issues like air and water.

The agency said Friday it is creating a new Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions that will allow it to focus on research and science “more than ever before.”
Once fully implemented, the changes will save the EPA nearly $750 million, officials said.

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For the entire article, see

https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-trump-reorganization-science-research-acf0ad3a649f940e138b2a917169405f

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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