Major EPA reorganization will end science research program

[G_j]

http://thehill.com/regulation/energy-environment/375725-major-epa-reorganization-will-end-science-research-program#.WpTIp8zI9jQ.facebook

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 on 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, the NCER will be dissolved and science staff serving there will be reassigned elsewhere within the department, the EPA said.

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[mr_lebowski]

1. What in the ever-loving fck ... can they just DO THIS?!? Fck I HATE THEM

SO FCKING MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KT2000]

2. they will stop the research

no doubt. One way of protecting corporations is to control the research and what is published. This should be front page news.

"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 adviser at the EPA under the Clinton and Bush administrations. "The children centers were really the first and only centers to uncover the relationship with prenatal exposure to flame retardants and IQ deficiencies in children.”

[G_j]

3. ..our ability to address the ways that environmental chemicals can impact childrens health,

just what they don’t want us to know..