Trump signs orders to revive U.S. coal industry, mandate new plants, and reclassify coal as a critical mineral despite its role in climate change and extreme weather.
RFK Jr. plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, echoing Utah ban and triggering EPA review.
Trump administration doesn’t renew contract for translating weather alerts and forecasts, cutting access for non-English speakers.
Peer-reviewed study last week shows NIH cancer breakthrough helping 1 in 4 patients, but Trump-era layoffs are delaying treatment rollout.
Top Trump FDA official pauses Novavax Covid-19 vaccine approval in rare intervention overriding staff scientists.
The day after firing 2,400 workers, Trump administration orders CDC to cut $2.9 billion in contracts, slashing 35 percent of outside spending.
Judge slams EPA and Citibank over $20 billion green grant freeze, questions legality of Trump-aligned shutdown targeting nonprofits.
Scientists and labor unions sue NIH over Trump-era purge of DEI, vaccine, and Covid research, citing $2.4 billion in canceled grants.
Trump move threatens to eliminate NIST spectroscopy group, putting global atomic data used in fusion, astronomy, and medicine at risk.
Disgraced anti-vaccine activist who has falsely posed as physician is hired by Trump’s HHS to “prove” debunked autism link using CDC data.
Trump administration told researchers to cut sexual orientation data from rural smoking study, prompting withdrawal from federally published health journal.
French scientist denied U.S. entry after CBP flagged private messages criticizing Trump’s science cuts.
NOAA, the agency for weather, oceans, and fisheries, faces a second round of 1,000 layoffs, bringing total job losses to 25%.
NASA eliminated 23 senior positions, including its Chief Scientist, and closed an office studying space and tech policy.