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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The moves are the latest part of the Trump administration’s ambitious reorganization and workforce reduction plan.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will shift the focus of its science researchers toward approving new chemicals — and indicated it may be preparing to cut hundreds or thousands of jobs.