Trump admin guts CDC’s climate and environment offices
April 1, 2025
People protesting personnel cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hold signs outside the agency’s main headquarters in Atlanta on March 12. Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images
A division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tasked with preventing exposures to harmful environmental hazards and responding to climate change is being axed Tuesday.
The Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP), housed within the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, has “been slated to be eliminated in its entirety,” according to an internal email from center Director Ari Bernstein obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The division oversees the CDC’s climate health activities and its branches on lead poisoning, asthma and air quality, water, emerging hazards, and environmental public health tracking.
Just after 5 a.m. Tuesday, large swaths of HHS employees were notified via email they had been locked out of their office buildings, placed on administrative leave and that their positions would be terminated in 60 days.
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