EPA Slashes 23 Percent of Its Workforce, Eliminating Scientific Research Arm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on Jan. 4, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it will cut about 23 percent of its workforce and eliminate its research and development office as part of the agency’s restructuring effort. The agency stated that it expects its workforce to reduce

EPA shutters its scientific research arm, with hundreds expected to be impacted

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that it is eliminating its scientific division, known as the Office of Research and Development. The move to shutter the ORD comes one day after the agency said it was undergoing a reorganization involving several other EPA divisions.  ORD conducts critical research to “safeguard human health and ecosystems

Duplicate Medicaid Enrollees Cost Taxpayers $14 Billion a Year: Report

A hospital in Irvine, Calif., on July 8, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Millions of people are enrolled in government health-care programs in more than one state or signed up concurrently in multiple programs that cost taxpayers about $14 billion a year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on July 17. The announcement