Bipartisan senators seek to prevent Trump from cutting EPA science research office

"A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) scientific research office.

Text of the appropriations bill, which advanced 26-2 on Thursday, was not immediately available. 

However, a summary posted online states that the bill “requires EPA to maintain its Office of Research and Development to ensure cutting-edge research, such as research into the risks from hazardous chemicals like PFAS or contaminated water, continues.”

This bipartisan pushback comes as the Trump administration said last week that it wants to eliminate the EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD)...."