Environmental health in crisis—who do we want to be?

I was working on my parent's back porch in Boston, with my father lying in hospice, days away from passing downstairs, when the email I dreaded appeared: " terminated in its entirety effective immediately no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities."Probably none of us in environmental health could have imagined, in precedented times, that a study on pollution, heat, and child health would be outside of EPA's scope.A New York Times reporter would quote me months later as saying, "I will never again have to lose