The White House is an amazing source of scientific thought; not only can the president and his cronies interfere with the science about Global Warming, but the process that the EPA uses to determine whether or not a chemical is toxic or poses a risk of causing cancer is also part of the White House’s purview.
It’s an amazing case of regulatory capture, hopefully temporary:
White House Undermines EPA on Cancer Risks, GAO Says
By H. Josef Hebert
The Associated Press
Monday 28 April 2008
Washington - The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals by letting nonscientists have a bigger - often secret - role, congressional investigators say in a report obtained by The Associated Press.
