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

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, ...

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 ...

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

The EPA is eliminating its research office and cutting 3,700 jobs in a major reorganization that shifts focus to applied ...

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

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

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

A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) scientific research office. Text of the appropriations ...

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