The director of a new EPA science office says the agency is still committed to upholding scientific integrity, despite concerns from observers that the Trump administration has taken steps to undermine those efforts.
The assurances from Teresa Booeshaghi, head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions (OASES), contrast with environmentalists’ claims that President Donald Trump’s appointees inside the agency are dictating which science gets promoted, muzzled, or canceled.
The new office reports directly to agency head Lee Zeldin, who created it in 2025 after dissolving the Office of Research and Development and reassigning its scientists …
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