EPA Seeks NAS’ Advice To Advance ORD’s Innovative Research Effort

EPA is asking the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to provide advice on how the agency can boost innovative research at its Office of Research and Development (ORD), in part by overcoming systemic challenges officials have identified to pursuing such work and in part by working around the office’s longstanding funding decline. The effort echoes the agency’s past push to implement NAS advice to create a computational toxicology center within ORD, which is now a key feature in the agency’s...