"Stupid is as Stupid does"

Even Forrest Gump could figure this out.

The Bush administration attempts to limit information and resources for environmental protection. As if this environmental butcher hasn't done enough damage ...



Environmental Accountability Falls with EPA Budget
Washington Dispatch: In a move seen as poorly-guised attempt to restrict access to information, the EPA is quietly closing down its libraries.

(Excerpts from article)
The Bush administration has persistently chipped away at environmental legislation and enforcement for the last six years, leaving both the system and the environment distressed and damaged. President Bush’s proposed 2007 budget continues this trend, requiring the closure of the majority of the Environmental Protection Agency’s research libraries and sending nearly 100,000 original documents into warehouse storage.
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These measures have prompted an outcry from EPA scientists and researchers who point out the obvious: without the valuable resources the libraries provide, they will be severely restricted in their mission to protect and enforce environmental law.
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“They are trying to marginalize their own scientists and prevent them from reporting inconvenient findings,”
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While EPA bureaucrats sit idly as the proverbial trees of knowledge are bulldozed, EPA employees have started speaking out. A mass protest letter signed by 10,000 EPA scientists and researchers — more than half of the agency’s workforce — accuses the library plan of being designed to “suppress information on environmental and public health-related topics.” An internal memo penned by the EPA’s enforcement branch and leaked to PEER also reflects deep concern.