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Revision as of 13:28, 16 April 2016

Group.png EPA   WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Statuscaptured
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
LeaderAdministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States
Typeregulator
Subgroups• EPA/Office of the Administrator
• EPA/Office of Administration and Resources Management
• EPA/Office of Air and Radiation
• EPA/Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
• EPA/Office of the Chief Financial Officer
• EPA/Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
• EPA/Office of Environmental Information
• EPA/Office of General Counsel
• EPA/Office of Inspector General
• EPA/Office of International and Tribal Affairs
• EPA/Office of Research and Development
• EPA/Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
• EPA/Office of Water
Staff15,913
SubpageEPA/Administrator
EPA/Deputy administrator
EPA/Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

Status

The EPA appears to be more or less captured. In April 2008, the Union of Concerned Scientists said that more than half of the nearly 1,600 EPA staff scientists who responded online to a detailed questionnaire reported they had experienced incidents of political interference in their work. The survey included chemists, toxicologists, engineers, geologists and experts in other fields of science. About 40% of the scientists reported that the interference had been more prevalent in the last five years than in previous years. The highest number of complaints came from scientists who were involved in determining the risks of cancer by chemicals used in food and other aspects of everyday life.

9/11 Air quality

On September 12, Christine Todd Whitman, Donald Rumsfeld staffer and then the EPA Administrator issued a memo saying that all statements to the media must be cleared by the United States National Security Council. A September 18 EPA statement saying that the air was "safe"[1] A 2003 report[1] released by the Office of the EPA Inspector General stated that the White House had pressured the EPA to delete cautionary information about the air quality in New York City around Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks.

Main findings

According to the report: a September 18 EPA statement saying that the air was "safe"[1] was made without sufficient reliable data available; the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced the EPA to make reassuring comments to the public; and on September 12 the EPA Administrator issued a memo saying that all statements to the media must be cleared by the National Security Council.

Glyphosate safety

In 2013, the EPA concluded in spite of research studies to the contrary that glyphosate was noncarcinogenic, awarding it a toxicity Class of III (on a I to IV scale, where IV is least dangerous) for oral and inhalation exposure, and upped the legal limit for exposure by an order of magnitude.[2][3] As one commentator put it "It appears that either the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in collusion with Monsanto, the producer and seller of the world’s most highly used herbicide, Roundup, or it is staffed with people who don’t know how to read or correlate information at the most basic level."[4]

Militarization

The agency has been criticized for spending millions of dollars on guns, body armor, camouflage equipment, drones, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear and other military equipment.[5]

 

Related Quotation

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Big chemical“It's the pesticide merchants and GMO companies....they are the real decision makers. They use lobbyist to shape national policy by almost buying politicians. It's this corruption that subverts the EPA. I am not a prophet, but I can see a very dark future if we fail to ban glyphosate and all other neurotoxins and carcinogens in or food and natural world.”Evaggelos Vallinatos long time EPA scientist2017
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