The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's closure of its scientific research office has alarmed public health experts and climate advocates. This decision is seen as a direct attack on the foundation of EPA's role in protecting citizens from dangerous pollutants and toxins. Adam Gaffney emphasized the historical significance of the Office of Research and Development, stating it has saved countless lives through its scientific contributions to regulatory frameworks. Under Lee Zeldin's direction, the EPA has aggressively pursued staffing cuts and regulatory rollbacks, a trend that threatens public health and environmental integrity.
"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.
Since taking charge at the EPA, Lee Zeldin has moved aggressively to implement President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at gutting the agency's staff and freeing oil and gas corporations from regulatory restraints.
In the statement, Zeldin said the elimination of the Office of Research and Development would help "ensure the agency is better equipped than ever to deliver on our core mission of protecting human health and the environment."
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