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Letting Goad
White House pressured EPA to ease toxics reporting requirements, GAO says |
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13 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 7:15 AM on 13 Dec 2007 Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, has concluded that the Bush White House pressured the U.S. EPA to ease toxics reporting requirements for businesses. The Toxics Release Inventory was born in 1986 and serves as a community right-to-know tool, requiring that companies report annually on their toxic pollution. However, the EPA, apparently under p ... |
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| Topics: Government Accountability Office, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, White House (all these topics) |
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