The Stalinist EPA

When, more than a decade on, the Environmental Protection Agency still hasn’t completed an assessment of the carcinogenic threat level of tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, it’s easy to see that “Stalninst EPA” isn’t just hyperbole:

“It feels like Stalin-era Russia, like the administration set themselves up to decide what’s allowable science and what isn’t.”

Perchlorate is another chemical where the EPA has been shamefully and deliberately lax.

As the story goes on to explain, if you thought cleaning up other parts of the Bush mess was going to be tough, tackling the EPA is really a ripper.

And, that’s only half the problem. Letting the Office of Management and Budget have any part in EPA risk assessments has the ultimately message of “money outweighs scientific truth.”