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

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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.

Well, then the people still on the EPA payroll can do the actual job, rather than being scam cultists. They can stop trying to force an agenda on American citizens, knowing that the they, the employees, will not be held accountable. Here’s from Steve Milloy on the NY Times article

My comment: In March 1992, the a blue ribbon panel of EPA’s Science Advisory Board told EPA in a report called “Safeguarding the Future: Credible Science, Credible Decisions” that “Science should never be adjusted to fit policy.” But EPA staff has continued to do the exact opposite. EPA has proven itself incapable of doing honest science so scientific research should be separated from the agency. A copy of “Safeguarding the Future” is available here: https://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/30001ZWJ.pdf…

It’s not even so much that so many EPA employees are making the science fit policy: they are simply doing the work of a doomsday cult, and trying to make their own policy.

The remaining employees can do what the EPA is supposed to do, like clean water, clean air, clean land. They won’t have time to enact their own personal agendas.

Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the science committee, said that without the Office of Research and Development, the E.P.A. would not be able to meet its legal obligation to use the “best available science” when writing regulations and considering policy. She also said that the office was created by congressional statute and that dissolving it would be illegal.

Perhaps they need to stop writing regulations and such, because anything actually needs to come from Congress. The EPA, like most agencies, just decides to do whatever the hell they want to do to support their beliefs, rather than what the agency is tasked with.

When the scientific community abandoned its standards to become partisans, it permanently lost trust among a third of the country in exchange for temporarily earning the love of another third. Not a good long-run deal. https://t.co/Oq9vBWC6ow

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) March 18, 2025