Environmental Protection Agency reported considering eliminating its research arm involved in pollution protection

EPA considers eliminating its science arm The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering the elimination of its science arm and firing most of its employees, according to documents reviewed by the Democratic staff of the House Sc… rfrazin The Hill

...A plan reviewed by the committee staffers calls for the elimination of the Office of Research and Development as an EPA National Program Office. It called for the elimination of 50 to 75 percent of the office’s 1,540 staffers.

This office is the agency’s science branch and provides the underlying research that guides the EPA’s work to protect the public from pollution.  

...