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Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:19 PM Saturday

Public Health Experts Sound the Alarm as Trump EPA Eliminates Research Arm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision Friday to eliminate its scientific research arm drew horrified responses from public health experts and climate advocates, who warned that the Trump administration is targeting the foundation of the department’s work to shield Americans from hazardous chemicals, toxic pollution, and drinking water contaminants.

“This is grim news,” said Adam Gaffney, an ICU doctor at the Cambridge Health Alliance. “For decades, the EPA’s Office of Research and Development has produced the science that underlies the regulations and technologies that protect us from innumerable hazards.”

“You can’t put a number on the lives that it has saved. Now Trump and Zeldin are killing it,” Gaffney added, referring to the president’s handpicked EPA administrator.

https://truthout.org/articles/public-health-experts-sound-the-alarm-as-trump-epa-eliminates-research-arm/

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