Old News You Need to Know: Bush Admin closed EPA library - destroyed documents

[Captain Hilts]

From the Union of Concerned Scientists:

http://ucsaction.org/campaign/1_17_07epalibraryclosures/explanation

The EPA has begun closing its nationwide network of scientific libraries, effectively preventing EPA scientists and the public from accessing vast amounts of data and information on issues from toxicology to pollution. Several libraries have already been dismantled, with their contents either destroyed or shipped to repositories where they are uncataloged and inaccessible.

Members of Congress have asked the EPA to cease and desist. While the agency claims that it has postponed further destruction of documents, we need you to tell the EPA that scientists and the public need unconstrained access to this critical information to protect our health and environment. UCS is asking concerned scientists and activists to call EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and urge him to keep the library system open until all materials are available online and sufficient research assistance is available.

We've received reports that some EPA receptionists are telling UCS supporters that the EPA is simply restructuring and modernizing the system. See below for evidence of why these arguments don’t hold water.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Why do Republicons HATE the Earth?

The Republicons really gots a nasty-bad, wicked, occult Ahrimanic fear-and-loathing thingy going on in their, um, souls (or whatever).

Gawd help them and their fear-driven apostasy.

[MH1]

8. They don't hate it, they just want to rape and pillage it and get all the profits

for themselves, as quickly as they can.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Oh, I see

thanks

[PDJane]

2. I knew this.........

And wondered at the time why the outrage wasn't deafening.

Thank you for this.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Folks at the National Library of Medicine told me about this last week.

Because of tighter security at the National Institutes of Health - a GOOD thing actually - patronage at the National Library of Medicine and the History of Medicine Library have been cut by half.

The NLM tried to remain outside the security cordon as it is on the edge of the campus, but security said NO.

So, its number of patrons have been cut by half.

[ensho]

4. yes, I was outraged and posted the news here

the neo cons need to be in prison

[Canuckistanian]

5. Has anyone ever assessed the damage done?

I think there should be an inquiry into exactly what information was lost.

The EPA Library was a WORLD-RENOWNED repository for environmental studies and data.

[Captain Hilts]

6. That's a really good point. There must be some former librarians that might know. nt

[joeybee12]

7. For those who don't think it was All Bush's Fault, please tell me

what WASN'T his fault?

[earth mom]

10. Traitorous bastards!

:grr:

[troubledamerican]

11. Remind me daily. How Satanic was Bush?