Also known as: Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency
The US is intensifying its response to New World screwworm as confirmed cases approach within 62 miles of the US-Mexico border. Emergency exemptions allow import of new treatments from Brazil, while sterile fly releases are expanded and a $100 million research initiative is launched. All southern ports of entry remain closed to livestock trade.
President Trump has terminated the EPA's endangerment finding, stripping federal authority to limit greenhouse gas pollution. The move could add up to 18 billion metric tons of climate pollution by 2055, potentially causing 184,000 early deaths and 37 million asthma attacks. Legal challenges are expected from Democratic leaders and environmental groups.
The U.S. Department of Energy revised its reactor authorization process to speed advanced reactor review and construction. The pathway cuts 17 steps to 11 and removes more than 900 pages from prior guidance.
Trump proposed significant cuts to major US science agencies for 2027, including a 13% reduction for the NIH and a nearly 55% cut for the NSF. The administration also let lapse its Supreme Court deadline in a separate fight to cap NIH research overhead payments at 15%.
Thousands of research positions have been terminated or frozen at federal agencies following deep cuts to U.S. science funding by the Trump administration, affecting work from aging studies to global food security.
