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Ms Fraser told the BBC she had been visiting the McCulloch brothers - her second cousins - every fortnight for years, at their farm near Muir of Ord on the Black Isle.

Eliminating this “would really cripple EPA’s efforts” in leading-edge areas, such as computational toxicology, says Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who retired in 2021 after 4 years as acting head of ORD.

Chris Frey, an environmental engineer at North Carolina State University who spent the past 2 years as the head of ORD, bristles at that.

Project 2025 also has a list of priorities for ORD, an office that it calls “precautionary, bloated, unaccountable.”

Burke says there’s a limit to how small ORD can get and still fulfill the tasks required by the Clean Air Act and other laws.