FW: Bush Hides Documents About Environmental Policy

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Subject: Bush Hides Documents About Environmental Policy


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THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
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BUSH HIDES DOCUMENTS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

President Bush regularly talks about the need for other countries to
display "transparency"[1] and create an open system that allows citizens
to see what their government is doing. But, according to a new report,
the Bush administration is hiding thousands of previously public
documents to "undercut the public's right to know about contamination of
the environment, transport of hazardous materials, pipeline routes, and
more."

The Working Group on Community Right-to-Know this week reports that,
under the guise of "national security," more than "six thousand public
documents have been removed from the web sites of over a dozen
government agencies."[2] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for
example, has removed from its website parts of once-public Risk
Management Plans -- documents that helped communities identify nearby
chemical hazards. The Department of Energy has taken down environmental
impact statements related to nuclear power plants and hazardous
materials transport information. The Department of Transportation
removed from its web site much of the national pipeline mapping data
that allowed communities to find hazardous pipeline routes.[3]

According to the report, President Bush has also issued executive orders
that broaden the authority of agencies to withhold information from the
public. May 2002's Executive Order 12958 gave the EPA Administrator
authority to designate documents "Secret" or "Confidential," two of the
three highest possible security classifications. The White House has
even reduced the public's access to unclassified information, passing
bills allowing agencies to withhold "sensitive but unclassified"
information from the public.

For more, see the report at www.Bushgreenwatch.org.

Sources:

1. Presidental Remarks , WhiteHouse.gov, 6/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1219453&l=41869.
2. "Bush Administration Secrecy Imperils Environment and Public Health",
Bushgreenwatch.org, 6/23/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1219453&l=41870.
3. "Secrecy in the Bush Administration Obstructs Communities'
Right-to-Know", Working Group on Community Right to Know (crtk.org),
6/23/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1219453&l=41871.

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