Axing of CDC Climate Team Will Worsen US Health, Ex-Chief Says

A team of federal officials tasked with helping cities and states navigate the effects of climate change on people’s health was disbanded Tuesday, part of a sweeping overhaul ordered by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

More than a dozen staffers comprising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s climate health program were among the thousands of workers at the Department of Health and Human Services who received dismissal notices. The climate health program was part of the CDC’s Division of Environmental Health and Science Practice, which employed hundreds of people who worked on everything ...