Apparently the Bush administration doesn’t like the environmental data that has been coming out lately, so they’ve decided to take decisive action: by shutting down Environmental Protection Agency libraries.
In an extraordinary letter of protest, representatives for 10,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists are asking Congress to stop the Bush administration from closing the agency’s network of technical research libraries. 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).
In his proposed budget for FY 2007, President Bush 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. The letter notes that “EPA library services are [now] greatly reduced or no longer available to the general public†in agency regional offices serving 19 states.
Well it is not to be expected but you know the Bush Administration doesn’t believe Global Warming is a phenomenon in reality. To close the libraries with the proof of such information is like a dictatorship. Cancel the news that doesn’t support your opinionso you can manufacture news to your liking.