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The Environmental Protection Agency (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.

The scientific information contained in the EPA libraries is essential to the agency’s ability to make fully informed decisions that carry out its mission of protecting human health and the environment. Members of Congress have asked the EPA to cease and desist dismantling these libraries.

Please call EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson at (202) 564-4700 either today or Monday and tell him how much scientists rely on data and literature. Urge him to immediately halt the dismantling of the library system until Congress approves the EPA budget and all materials are readily available online.

Sincerely,

Michael Halpern
National Field Organizer
Scientific Integrity Program

The Age of Reason is over. As much as I admire the effort to call Mr. Johnson to pressure him to change this course of action, the fact that we are not living in a democratic republic, but rather are subjects of a corporate state, makes such actions seem next to useless. Mr. Johnson doesn’t take his marching orders from “We The People”, unfortunately.

Go to The Union of Concerned Scientists for more.