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New NRDC Report Documents Monitoring Programs Slashed Under the Bush Administration

December 3, 2008

Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment

Tags:
biomonitoring, CDC, chemicals, data, EPA, hazard, health, lead, pesticide, righttoknow, risk, science, toxic, toxicchemicals

A report released today by the NRDC Health Program documents many examples of Bush Administration budget cuts to key data collection programs that monitor hazardous pollutants in our air, water, food, and even our bodies. The loss of these monitoring programs will...continued

USDA cuts budget to its pesticide use data program: no budget, no data, no public information about agriculture chemical use

May 20, 2008

Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment

Tags:
agriculture, budget, crop, data, NASS, pesticide, simplesteps, statistics, survey, USDA

A coalition of public interest groups including NRDC, the Center for Food Safety, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and The Organic Center came together to protest budget cuts that will kill the collection and public reporting of pesticide use...continued

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Jennifer Sass
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