Saturday, November 11, 2006

More on the Bush administration's war against environmental data

Senators question closing of EPA libraries (From a blog affiliated with the DePaul University law school) Quoted there:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sharply reducing the number of technical journals and environmental publications to which its employees will have online access, according to agency e-mails released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). This loss of online access compounds the effect of agency library closures, meaning that affected employees may not have access to either a hard copy or an electronic version of publications.
Smoke and mirrors. Claim that the physical libraries aren't needed because "everything's on the Internet", while simultaneously shutting down researcher's electronic access. Smoke and mirrors. Will a Democratic Congress be willing to look behind the curtain?

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