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 ...

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

State officials are worried about the shifting national priorities, which includes a 10% staffing cut to The U.S. Forest ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it will eliminate the Office of Research and Development and reduce its ...

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.

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