In addition to reductions at agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations, The Times has learned.
The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.
It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.
The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.