"Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children's health, EPA is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child development.
The move, critics say, is part of a broader Trump administration effort to downplay science that could lead to stricter regulations on polluting industries.
At issue are 13 Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers located at institutions across the country, from UCLA to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
Jointly funded by EPA and the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for more than two decades, the children's centers study everything from childhood leukemia to the development of autism spectrum disorders. Grants to those centers have long been considered unique in the public health world for including funding for both research and public outreach."
Corbin Hiar and Ariel Wittenberg report for Greenwire May 20, 2019.
SEE ALSO:
"Trump’s ‘Pro-Life’ Administration Just Killed A Program On Children’S Health" (Los Angeles Times)
