Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.'s Scientific Research Arm

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Source: NYT

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

The strategy is part of large-scale layoffs, known as a “reduction in force,” being planned by the Trump administration, which is intent on shrinking the federal work force. Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the E.P.A., has said he wants to eliminate 65 percent of the agency’s budget. That would be a drastic reduction — one that experts said could hamper clean water and wastewater improvements, air quality monitoring, the cleanup of toxic industrial sites, and other parts of the agency’s mission.

The E.P.A.’s plan, which was presented to White House officials on Friday for review, calls for dissolving the agency’s largest department, the Office of Research and Development, and purging up to 75 percent of the people who work there.

The remaining staff members would be placed elsewhere within the E.P.A. “to provide increased oversight and align with administration priorities,” according to the language shared with The New York Times by staff members who work for Democrats on the House science committee.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html

[sakabatou]

1. Because fuck environmental safety!

God he's evil.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Of course. They're gonna kill most of us very soon

With a compromise food supply no vaccines, I could go on and on, it’s over folks they’re gonna kill us all

[Avalon Sparks]

8. I've thought this for some time now

I started to suspect that’s the real plan the elites/ billionaire's have for climate change. We are at the point now where the only solution is vast depopulation.

Then they can keep the earths finite resources and the whole planet all to themselves.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Let industry regulate itself. What could go wrong? . . . . nt

[Deuxcents]

4. We don't need no stinking' clean water and all them regulations USA! USA! 🙃

[PSPS]

5. The NYT has adopted the trump style guide. "shrinking the federal work force"

They've been instructed to use "shrinking" when it's really "eliminating."

[Blues Heron]

7. Good catch -another is "trials with outcomes unfavorable to the president" (I.e. convicted) heard that on npr

[Blues Heron]

6. The pukes just sit back and watch this sicko destroy our country

While they cash their “gratuities”

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. It's open season on scientists.

Hatred of science and scientists comes naturally to Trump. Science is all about determining facts, and Trump doesn't believe there is such a thing as a fact. Or, to put it another way, he thinks an "alternative fact" is just as valid as any other fact. And furthermore, scientists tend to be professors in universities. Trump hates professors, and he hates universities.