Major EPA reorganization will end science research program

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

A federal environmental program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being shuttered amidst a major organization consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) will no longer exist following plans to combine three EPA offices, the agency confirmed to The Hill Monday.

The program provides millions of dollars in grants each year.

Perhaps best known for its handling of fellowships that study the effects of chemicals on children’s health, NCER will be dissolved and science staff serving there will be reassigned elsewhere within the department, EPA said.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. Anti-science admin is stupidity-based

Fascism at its finest!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. It's insidiously clever to give gifts to petrochem megacorps like Koch's. . . . nt

[Freethinker65]

2. Just mothball the EPA until the next administration

[highplainsdem]

3. Outrageous.