{"id":1828,"date":"2006-05-16T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/budget-cut-would-shutter-epa-libraries\/"},"modified":"2006-05-16T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T15:49:17","slug":"budget-cut-would-shutter-epa-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/budget-cut-would-shutter-epa-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/14\/AR2006051400772.html?referrer=email\">Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries<\/a> By Christopher Lee, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Proposed budget cuts could cripple a nationwide system of Environmental Protection Agency libraries that government researchers and others depend on for hard-to-find technical information, library advocates say.<\/p>\n<p>The $2 million cut sought by the White House would reduce the 35-year-old EPA Library Network&#8217;s budget by 80 percent and force many of its 10 regional libraries to close, according to the advocates and internal agency documents.<\/p>\n<p>That, in turn, would dramatically reduce access to certain EPA reports, guidance and technical documents that are used by the agency&#8217;s scientific and enforcement staff as well as private businesses and citizens, they say. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The public has a lot at stake in the future of these libraries, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit advocacy group that obtained internal EPA documents on the proposed cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We view this as another example of the Bush administration marginalizing EPA research so that the agency scientists and other specialists can&#8217;t do their jobs,&#8221; Ruch said. &#8220;And then in the absence of information, plans by industries and others that have environmental implications go forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries By Christopher Lee, Washington Post Staff Writer Proposed budget cuts could cripple a nationwide system of Environmental Protection Agency libraries that government researchers and others depend on for hard-to-find technical information, library advocates say. The $2 million cut sought by the White House would reduce the 35-year-old EPA Library &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/budget-cut-would-shutter-epa-libraries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Budget Cut Would Shutter EPA Libraries<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}