Employees say they remain in the dark on who and how many people will be reassigned as well as the future of research ...

The Trump administration’s policies are putting pressure on the country’s scientific agencies and staff members are beginning ...

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

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

Total staffing at EPA will go down to 12,448, a reduction of more than 3,700 employees, or nearly 23%, from staffing levels ...

The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency would be eliminating its Office of Research and Development and start firing hundreds of biologists, chemists, toxicologists and other scientists who help ...

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.

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

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 PFAS to pesticides to ...

A union representative for the employees is objecting to a survey in which the workers must now disclose if they signed the ...