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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.

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.

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.”

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.