10,000 EPA scientists, engineers protest
Representatives for 10,000 scientists, engineers, and other specialists with
the Environmental Protection Agency have written a letter of protest, asking
Congress to stop the administration from closing the EPA's technical research
libraries... a process that already has begun.
The letter complains the closures are "one more example of the
administration's effort to suppress information on environmental and public
health-related topics."
According to a news release from Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility:
The EPA scientists, representing more than half of the total agency
workforce, contend thousands of scientific studies are being put out of reach,
hindering emergency preparedness, anti-pollution enforcement and long-term
research, according to the letter released today by Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
The budget for FY 2007 deleted $2 million of support for EPA's libraries,
amounting to 80% of the agency's total budget for libraries. Without waiting for
Congress to act, EPA has begun shuttering libraries, closing access to
collections and reassigning staff. ...
Read the letter of protest from EPA scientists
Look at the Bush administration plan to shut EPA libraries
See how EPA is shutting libraries without waiting for Congress to act
View the Science Advisory Board Chair’s testimony on EPA’s deteriorating research program
