Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle as they discuss the dismantling of EPA’s scientific research office.

Last week the Trump administration quietly took a hugely consequential action affecting environmental protections in America: beginning to shutter the EPA Office of Research and Development.

The decision follows a long pressure campaign from industry lobbyists to limit EPA’s ability to assess the health risks of chemicals like formaldehyde, ethylene oxide, arsenic and hexavalent chromium, and mitigate the harms they can cause.

Marianne takes us inside the office, explaining its critical role in protecting the public, the politics at play, and why shutting the office down is such a devastating loss to the country.

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