Trump's EPA Just Eliminated a Critical Office That Safeguarded Americans' Health

[Brenda]

JUL 23, 2025

For more than half a century, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, or ORD, has furnished the EPA with independent research on issues as varied as ozone pollution to pesticides like glyphosate. Last week, after months of speculation and denial, the EPA officially confirmed that it is eliminating its research division and slashing thousands more employees from its payroll in the agency’s quest to cut 23% of its workforce. The latest moves add to the nearly 4,000 personnel who have already resigned, retired or been laid off, according to the agency’s calculations.

The decision came directly on the heels of a Supreme Court order that greenlit the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize and restructure the federal government.

The EPA’s decision to dissolve ORD and integrate a portion of its scientists into the agency’s policymaking infrastructure stands to benefit chemical companies and industrial polluters by rubbing away the boundaries between science and politics, science advocates argue. Research conducted at ORD not only grounded new EPA regulations, it also provided the scientific basis for TSCA enforcement.

I HATE EVERY FUCKING POLITICIAN IN DC WHO VOTED FOR ALL THIS SHIT!

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-epa-just-eliminated-a-critical-office-that-safeguarded-americans-health/

[pfitz59]

1. Project 2025 eugenics scheme

is working as planned. kill or deport the lower class folk and those remaining will be cowed peasants

[UTUSN]

3. All soon left a few Fed judges