Feeling Safer Yet?
Oct 31st, 2006 at 1:57 pm by Susie
See, if you can’t read it, it doesn’t really exist:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has closed its principal library for researching the effects and properties of chemicals.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) strongly opposes the closure, saying it will undermine the ability of researchers to reveal chemical hazards in the future. There are some 1,700 new chemicals introduced each year.
“Without this research assistance, EPA scientists have fewer resources to conduct thorough analyses on hundreds of new chemicals for which companies are clamoring for agency approval to launch each year into the mainstream of American commerce,†said Jeff Ruch, director of PEER.
I wonder what will happen to the contents of the library once it is closed. There are plenty of universities and foundations that would have stepped forward to fund and manage the library.
What gives the executive branch the right to undo the governmental structure unilaterally like this?
Similarly to reports of shredding parties by Enron and Anderson to exterminate records incriminating themselves… our US EPA shreddS to eliminate the correct historical records and data. The for a replacement data fulfilled by creative writing attorneys, placed in overstuffed oracles, the new better-funded prettier EPA library!