NIH’s environmental health journal goes dark

By Ellie Borst | 12/04/2025 01:30 PM EST

Environmental Health Perspectives, the federal government’s premier peer-reviewed academic journal, will transition to an external publisher.

A sign is seen outside the National Institutes of Health headquarters.

A sign sits outside National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. Francis Chung/POLITICO

The National Institutes of Health has pulled its highly regarded environmental health journal from the web amid a transition to a new publisher.

Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed scientific publication funded and operated by NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, closed its website access Monday, according to Joel Kaufman, the journal’s editor-in-chief.

The website’s blackout comes nearly six months after Kaufman and NIEHS leaders announced the EHP and the Journal of Health and Pollution, which EHP absorbed in 2023, would no longer receive federal support.

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In April, EHP Publishing announced it would stop accepting new manuscript submissions due to the Trump administration’s spending cuts.

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