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Published online 19 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1327
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US Environmental Protection Agency faces eleventh-hour shake-up
Scientists voice concerns as small-scale projects fall from favour.
The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD), home to most of the agency's scientists, may be facing a significant reorganization just one month before President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
According to an employee of the ORD — who asked to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals — a department-wide staff meeting on 18 December reiterated plans mooted in recent months, including abandoning many small projects led by a single principal investigator (PI) in favour of broad, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary projects.
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