Environmental Protection Agency haemorrhaged scientific expertise under Trump
More than 670 scientific posts were lost at the EPA over Donald Trump’s tenure including chemists, chemical engineers and microbiologists
Scientific expertise at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a huge hit over the past four years of Donald Trump’s administration, with the agency losing 672 such posts between 2016 and 2020, according to an analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). In 2018, the EPA’s total workforce was down by 21% compared with its all-time staffing peak in 2000.