The apologists for coporate policies have long depended on citing Government Funded Studies and research to shape our environmental agendas and
policies, right? Well, it looks that defense fell flat on it's face today as revelations from Scientists under the Employ of the Federal Government,
have called our attention to what most of us already knew. Coporate America runs our environmental policies, at the expense, quite literally, of the
world we live on.
www.latimes.com...
More than 200 scientists employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they have been directed to alter official findings to lessen protections
for plants and animals, a survey released Wednesday says....
More than half of the biologists and other researchers who responded to the survey said they knew of cases in which commercial interests, including
timber, grazing, development and energy companies, had applied political pressure to reverse scientific conclusions deemed harmful to their
business...
"The pressure to alter scientific reports for political reasons has become pervasive at Fish and Wildlife offices around the country," said Lexi
Shultz of the Union of Concerned Scientists...
It is one thing for the department to dismiss our recommendations, it is quite another to be forced (under veiled threat of removal) to say something
that is counter to our best professional judgment."
No suprises here, what good is clean dirt if you can't squeeze money out of it eh? I like mercury, dioxins, and new resistant strains of bacterium
just as much as the next guy, but let's not delude ourselves by thinking there is any level of ecological responsibility left in America. A shame
really, it used to be a nice place.
