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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EPA announces broad reorganization that includes shuffle of scientific research

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a broad reorganization as part of the Trump administration’s drive to cut costs that some activists worry will harm the agency’s independent scientific research.
 
President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lovefest or Cabinet meeting? For Donald Trump, it’s both

 
Chris Meek, who survived cancer he suspects was caused by forever chemicals known as PFAS in drinking water, stands in front of the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

Decision looming for Trump administration on first PFAS drinking water limits

 
West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve near Fayetteville, W.Va., Thursday, April 17, 2025, (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

Trump’s push to save the fading coal industry gets a warm embrace in West Virginia

 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, center, speaks to media while leaving a press conference Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in San Diego. (Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

EPA chief demands that Mexico stop Tijuana sewage from flowing into California

 

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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., testifies during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on her pending confirmation to be the United Nations Ambassador, on Capitol Hill, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik is considering a run for governor of New York

 
Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin arrives before President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The EPA can’t end grants from $20 billion Biden-era fund for climate-friendly projects, a judge says

 
People wait for the trailhead at Glacier Point to re-open at Yosemite National Park, Calif., June 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

This federal rule helped clear air over America’s most beloved parks. Trump’s EPA wants to kill it

 
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Billionaires, trusted allies, media personalities. These are the people Trump picked for top roles

 
President Donald Trump shakes hands with coal miner Jeff Crowe during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs executive orders to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source

 
President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order during an event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington, as from left Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and White House staff secretary Will Scharf watch. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: Trump signs executive orders to boost coal

 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) building is seen in Washington on Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Federal judge questions whether EPA move to rapidly cancel ‘green bank’ grants was legal

 
Environmental Protection Agency employees take part in a national march against actions taken by the Trump administration, Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democrats say EPA illegally canceled hundreds of grants aimed at boosting ‘environmental justice’

 
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., left, greets Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, right, before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump DOT chief rejects inclusion of environmental justice factors in infrastructure decisions

 
The Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant operates near Emmett, Kan., Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn’t a danger, say just look around at the world

 
A man walks to the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Federal workers return to offices amid threat from Elon Musk

 
President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump creates council for ‘energy dominance,’ boosts natural gas exports and offshore drilling

 
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

EPA chief says he will seek return of $20 billion in clean-energy grants awarded by Biden

 
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, left, looks on as Vice President JD Vance speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department as he visits East Palestine, Ohio, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Rebecca Droke/Pool Photo via AP)

Lawsuit blames deaths on Ohio train derailment as Vance says US needs ‘to do better on rail safety’

 
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Senate confirms Zeldin to lead Environmental Protection Agency as Trump vows to cut climate rules

 

Senate confirms Lee Zeldin as Environmental Protection Agency head as Trump targets rules meant to slow climate change

 
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump’s EPA nominee stays vague on plans as senators press him on climate views

 
Water flows down the Sandusky River between farms, Aug. 26, 2024, in Fremont, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer pose cancer risk, EPA says

 
EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31

 
President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage before he speaks at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Greenvale, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

In promising to shake up Washington, Trump is in a class of his own

 
Pump jacks extract oil from beneath the ground in North Dakota, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

EPA hails ‘revitalized’ enforcement efforts as Biden administration heads to exit

 
President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference, followed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump transition says Cabinet picks, appointees were targeted by bomb threats, swatting attacks

 
FILE - Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., speaks at a rally in Concord, N.H., Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump names former Rep. Lee Zeldin to lead EPA, adviser Stephen Miller to be deputy chief of policy

 
This undated image provided by the Suffolk County, N.Y., District Attorney, shows Noah Green, a 20-year-old gang member who has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for shooting two rival gang members in front of the New York home of then-Congressman Lee Zeldin, authorities said, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (Suffolk County District Attorney via AP)

A man pleads guilty in a shooting outside then-US Rep. Zeldin’s New York home

 
HOLD FOR STORY UPDATE - In this image taken from video provided by WHEC-TV, David Jakubonis, left, attacks U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, right, as he delivered a speech while campaigning for governor as New York's Republican candidate, in Perinton, N.Y., July 21, 2022. Jakubonis, who pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a federal officer, received three years of probation Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (WHEC-TV via AP)

A man who accosted former Rep. Lee Zeldin at an upstate NY campaign stop receives 3 years probation

 

Man who accosted former Rep. Lee Zeldin at campaign stop pleads guilty in federal case