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The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced the agency was \u201cshifting its scientific expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would disperse scientists from its independent research office to other divisions where they among other things will be tasked with approving the use of new chemicals.<\/p>\n

Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the changes to the E.P.A. in a video, saying the agency was \u201cshifting its scientific expertise\u201d to focus on issues he described as \u201cmission essential.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the immediate changes will affect the Office of Research and Development, the E.P.A.\u2019s main research arm that conducts studies on things like the health and environmental risks of \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in drinking water and the best way to reduce fine particle pollution in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

An internal document previously reviewed<\/a> by The New York Times outlined the Trump administration\u2019s recommendation to eliminate that office, with plans to fire as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists working on health and environmental research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That didn\u2019t happen on Friday, but the agency\u2019s new priorities were made clear: One hundred and thirty jobs will be moved to an office at the agency tasked with approving new chemicals for use, Mr. Zeldin said. Chemical industry groups have long complained of a backlog in approvals, which they say is stifling innovation.<\/p>\n

At an all-hands staff meeting late Friday, Nancy Beck, a former lobbyist at the American Chemistry Council who now heads the E.P.A.\u2019s chemicals office, told stunned scientists that it was \u201ca very exciting time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced the agency was \u201cshifting its scientific expertise.\u201dThe Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would disperse scientists from its independent research office to other divisions where they among other things will be tasked with approving the use of new chemicals.Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the changes to the E.P.A. in a video, saying the agency was \u201cshifting its scientific expertise\u201d to focus on issues he described as \u201cmission essential.\u201dMost of the immediate changes will affect the Office of Research and Development, the E.P.A.\u2019s main research arm that conducts studies on things like the health and environmental risks of \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in drinking water and the best way to reduce fine particle pollution in the atmosphere.An internal document previously reviewed by The New York Times outlined the Trump administration\u2019s recommendation to eliminate that office, with plans to fire as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists working on health and environmental research.That didn\u2019t happen on Friday, but the agency\u2019s new priorities were made clear: One hundred and thirty jobs will be moved to an office at the agency tasked with approving new chemicals for use, Mr. Zeldin said. Chemical industry groups have long complained of a backlog in approvals, which they say is stifling innovation.At an all-hands staff meeting late Friday, Nancy Beck, a former lobbyist at the American Chemistry Council who now heads the E.P.A.\u2019s chemicals office, told stunned scientists that it was \u201ca very exciting time.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27132,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27133,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions\/27133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}