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EPA Ends National Center for Environmental Research Which Focuses on Children's Health
As we have stated a dozen times before, Scott Pruitt is in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency yet he would love nothing more than to erase it from existence. He's living out his wildest fantasy with this sadistic opportunity to destroy it from the inside. In Pruitt's mind, nothing, even the future our the one planet we have, should stand in the way of corporations doing whatever they want to maximize profits. This is as simple as we can explain it.
A federal environmental program.... best known for its handling of fellowships that study the effects of chemicals on children’s health.... is being shuttered....
The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) will no longer exist following plans to combine three EPA offices, the agency confirmed ....
The program provides millions of dollars in grants each year..... distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children
Trump is happily on board. His proposed budgets, which Congress haven't passed, have zero money for NCER.
Both of the White House’s fiscal 2018 and 2019 budgets proposed zeroing out major programs under NCER, but the cuts were not taken up in the most recent congressional budget.
A bit more on NCER's accomplishments to benefit our children and society. Money well spent; every cent.
NCER is largely known for the funding it provides through its premiere program, Science To Achieve Results (STAR). Under the STAR program, grants are given to the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers, which were established in 1988 to discover methods to reduce children's health risks from environmental factors.
“Those programs have been so successful in advancing our scientific understanding and our ability to address the ways that environmental chemicals can impact children’s health,” said Tracey Woodruff, a former senior scientist and policy advisor at the EPA under the Clinton and Bush administrations. "The children centers were really the first and only centers to undercover the relationship with prenatal exposure to flame retardants and IQ deficiencies in children.”