RE: Ways EPA can partner with local government?
- Archived: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Fred Stoss <fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Subject: RE: Ways EPA can partner with local government?
- X-topic: Local Issues/Superfund
Judith Farrey writes, "I don't envy the EPA officials who are responsible for sorting this out and for trying to make decisions based on sound science, not politics."
Our news accounts deal almost exclusively with the administrators (political appointees) and policies (politically driven and motivated actions and inacations). Rarely, if ever, does the print or broadcast media deal with the issues of sound science (they are perhaps not entertaining enough, read: too boring).
Therefore, the image of the EPA (and other government agencies) is that they are all a bunch of political hacks. Ask the USGS about their Doonesbury-proclaimed environmental martyr, Ian Thomas.
The EPA has many dedicated scientists, engineers, social scientists, information specialists that are top-notch professionals. I would imagine they, too, feel frustrated with the public's perceptions of the agency and their work.
Fred Stoss
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