GAO: White House Undermines EPA on Cancer Risks
An AP newswire article by H. Josef Hebert, via SFGate.com, reports that:
The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals by letting nonscientists have a bigger — often secret — role, congressional investigators say in a report obtained by The Associated Press.More here.
The administration's decision to give the Defense Department and other agencies an early role in the process adds to years of delay in acting on harmful chemicals and jeopardizes the program's credibility, the Government Accountability Office concluded.
At issue is the EPA's screening of chemicals used in everything from household products to rocket fuel to determine if they pose serious risk of cancer or other illnesses.
A new review process begun by the White House in 2004 is adding more speed bumps for EPA scientists, the GAO said in its report, which will be the subject of a Senate Environment Committee hearing Tuesday. A formal policy effectively doubling the number of steps was adopted two weeks ago.
posted by Fergie @ 4/28/2008 05:15:00 PM
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When are we going to impeach the # 1,2,3- et al., etc. ad nauseam White House-squatting TERRORISTS fully responsible for the endless War On Truth they pursue relentlessly regardless of who they maim or kill?!?!!!
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