The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to close its scientific research arm and announce mass layoffs. On July 18, ...

The research and development office had been in the crosshairs of organizations allied with President Donald Trump.

As the agency is encouraging more departures, EPA on Thursday announced “the next phase of organizational improvements.” The ...

A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is eliminating a scientific research office known as the Office of Research and Development and firing some of the staffers who work there. “Today, ...

The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 ...

On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails saying they’d been assigned new ...

In a statement on Friday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said that the mass layoff and office closure will still allow the agency to deliver its "core mission of protecting human heath and the ...

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

The Office of Research and Development produced the science underpinning regulations on everything from pesticides to lead.

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

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