Leading environmental health journal defunded by Trump administration has been saved

After the top journal Environmental Health Perspectives  (EHP)  went dark in December after the Trump administration cut funding to its parent organisation, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has stepped in and will now run it. When the ACS announced the deal yesterday, it brought relief to many in the research community who feared the 53-year-old premier publication  might be dead.

Previously published  by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), EHP  was one of the few peer-reviewed journals funded by the government. It published research on the relationship between the environment and human health and had an impact factor of 10.