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They'll Never Learn
EPA closure of research libraries was a stupid idea, says GAO |
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14 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:29 PM on 14 Mar 2008 The U.S. EPA decision to deal with a 2006 funding cut by closing several research libraries was not very well thought out, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office. To take just one example: The EPA promised to compensate for the closures by making information available on the internet, but due to copyright issues, only some 10 percent of the library system's doc ... |
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| Topics: Government Accountability Office, news, scientific research, US EPA (all these topics) |
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