EPA veils hazardous substances

December 22, 2008 By Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely allows companies to keep new information about their chemicals secret, including compounds that have been shown to cause cancer and respiratory problems, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found.


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VOR
Dec 24, 2008

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I wonder what is the cause of this situation..incompetence, greed, or both.
The leaders of EPA are to blame, knowledgeable or not.
theophys
Dec 28, 2008

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More proof that the entire bueracratic wing of the government needs to be massively restructured for efficiency. The EPA should probably be run by a couple computers and we should probably creat the National Bribery Agency, or NBA, to systemize and control the nations corruption.
Peber
Jan 19, 2009

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Yeh, stuff like this really worries me...

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