The EPA can no longer test your air or flag toxic chemicals because the part of the agency that did that was just dismantled.

Roughly 1,500 scientists. Gone. Labs shuttered. Oversight erased.

This was the Office of Research and Development – the brain of the EPA. It ran toxicity tests, tracked pollutants, and sounded the alarm on threats like forever chemicals, smog, and microplastics in drinking water.

Now that alarm has been cut at the cord.

ORD was the part of the agency that asked hard questions. It linked pollution to asthma, cancer, and neurological harm. It flagged industry lies. And it forced action. Which is why it had to go.

Without ORD, the EPA is flying blind. It can’t run its own tests. It has to rely on corporate-funded studies – the kind that tell you fracking’s safe and dioxin’s fine in small doses.

Communities near factories and oil fields will feel it first. No one left to test the air. No one tracking what’s in the wells. No data, no problem – at least on paper.

This is how deregulation happens now. Not with a press conference. With a quiet erasure.

Read it. Share it. Call Congress. Demand they restore the EPA’s science wing and protect independent research. Because if no one’s collecting the data, no one’s protecting you.