The EPA
This comes as a shock to me - because it is already taking place! The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun closing its nationwide network of scientific libraries, effectively preventing EPA scientists and the public from accessing vast amounts of data and information on issues from toxicology to pollution.
Several libraries have already been dismantled, with their contents either destroyed or shipped to repositories where they are uncatalogued and inaccessible. Some members of Congress have asked the EPA to cease and desist because scientists and the public need unconstrained access to this critical information to protect our health and environment.
This administration is doing everything it can to render the EPA helpless in protecting the environment. While the Union of Concerned Scientists - which put me onto this scam - suggests complaining to Stephen Johnson, EPA administrator, I believe that if someone really wants to help save this agency¹s integrity, contacting their Congressional representatives , and publicizing the situation, would be much more effective.
R. Kiefer
Arvada
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Since when did the EPA have any integrity to save?
Posted by Roy on January 29, 2007 04:46 PM