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

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

The EPA’s Office of Research and Development studies things like PFAS, air pollution, and chemical safety to develop ...

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

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

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

The agency’s Office of Research and Development has long provided the scientific underpinnings for EPA’s mission to protect ...

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of ...

The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and ...

“This is grim news,” said Adam Gaffney, an ICU doctor at the Cambridge Health Alliance. “For decades, the EPA’s Office of ...

Environmental advocates say cutting the EPA's research office could have dire effects, especially when it comes to climate ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering the elimination of its science arm and firing most of that branch’s employees according to documents reviewed by the Democratic staff of ...