Bush EPA fires up the shredders

Via The Indiana Law Blog, the Bush EPA facing a Democratic Congress is coming to resemble Arthur Andersen in the wake of the Enron collapse. Where Andersen fired up the shredders, the EPA is trashing its own libraries, causing unique technical reports and analyses indefinitely accessible and throwing many materials concerning pollution and toxic substances into trash bins.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility news release here. Boston Globe story here.

“By its actions, it appears that the appointed management at EPA is determined to actually reduce the sum total of human knowledge,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “EPA is not an agency renowned for its speed, so its undue haste in dumping library holdings suggests a political agenda rather than anything resembling a rational information management plan.”