“I think that attracting, hiring, and retaining great scientists to the EPA after this administration is going to be incredibly difficult.”
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, a former EPA researcher details the agency's assault on science.
In late January, the Trump administration began shutting down projects within the EPA’s independent science division that touched on climate change and environmental justice. Air quality researcher Thomas Luben, who had worked at the agency for 18 years, was fired for objecting.