Letters reversing the layoffs arrived in the inboxes of some NIOSH staff a day ahead of House and Senate hearings Wednesday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where he ...

Shelley Moore Capito. Roughly 200 employees of the NIOSH office in Morgantown, West Virginia, were put on administrative leave in April and informed they would be formally fired in June.

NIOSH is a small agency dedicated to science. It is staffed by physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, industrial hygienists and laboratory researchers. It is not about politics. It does not do ...

holds a sign during a rally Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in support of some 185 researchers and other employees of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown ...

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who has advocated for NIOSH workers at the Morgantown facility since the cuts were proposed, announced the move Tuesday following a talk with U.S. Department of ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 100 federal workers at Morgantown NIOSH are being called back to work. Members of the state’s congressional delegation heard from U.S. Health and Human Services ...