Another big FU from George to Amurkins: White House delaying chemical tests

[Contrary1]

"WASHINGTON - 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 — say, congressional investigators say in a report obtained by The Associated Press.

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..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24358037/

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. GIVE US OUR NATION BACK

THE MILITARY IS COMPLICIT IN ALL THESE EVIL THNGS

[Occulus]

2. The Bush-era political interference in the scientific process must cease.

Public health is at stake; the term "depraved indifference" looms large in my mind.

[KT2000]

3. This is about

real people getting sick and some dying from exposures while they stall.