EPA science office faces deep cuts, putting North Carolina jobs and research at risk
WRAL: Victor Flatt, the Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law and the associate director of the Burke Center for Environmental Law, warned of the legal challenges—and public health risks—of the Trump administration’s plan to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s research arm. “The EPA is required by law to set pollution standards based on the best available scientific evidence,” he said. “If the agency removes the scientists responsible for gathering that evidence, it cannot fulfill its statutory obligations under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other federal environmental laws.”