Trump EPA to cut office that oversees children's health impacts from chemicals
NCER is largely known for the funding it provides through its premiere program, Science To Achieve Results (STAR). Under the STAR program, grants are given to the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers, which were established in 1988 to discover methods to reduce children's health risks from environmental factors.
“Those programs have been so successful in advancing our scientific understanding and our ability to address the ways that environmental chemicals can impact children’s health,” said Tracey Woodruff, a former senior scientist and policy advisor at the EPA under the Clinton and Bush administrations. "The children centers were really the first and only centers to undercover the relationship with prenatal exposure to flame retardants and IQ deficiencies in children.”
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"STAR has had numerous successes, such as in research on human health implications of air pollution, on environmental effects on children’s health and well-being, on interactions between climate change and air quality, and on the human health implications of nanoparticles. Those are just a few examples; many more could be cited," the report read.
http://thehill.com/regulation/energy-environment/375725-major-epa-reorganization-will-end-science-research-program?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
Edit to add: I think this pretty much undercuts his message that he would run into gun fire to save children. All he has to do here is continue an office that has existed for 30 years, both during Republican and Democratic administrations to fund research for methods to improve children's health as it relates to environmental toxins.
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