IRIS' High-Profile Chief To Be Shifted To New Role Under ORD Reorganization

Tina Bahadori, chief of the EPA research center that oversees its influential Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, is slated to be shifted to a new role as part of the Office of Research and Development's (ORD) reorganization, a move that some say may be driven by her efforts to advance a program the Trump administration is seeking to sideline. “There's no more competent person to lead the IRIS program” than Bahadori, one former EPA source says, adding that she...