RE: Question for 21 September: Can we trust the EPA?

[Fred Stoss <fstoss@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

Isn't there a Billy Joel song, "A Matter of Trust?"

EPA is a federal agency and operates in an environment of 
partisan politics. As a result there is always a tension in
addressing this question. 

However, in dealing with the EPA Libraries for a period now 
covering parts of four decades, I can say that my interactions 
with individuals in the EPA Library Network have NEVER been 
tainted with leanings left or right politically. I might add 
that individuals' sensitivities to this issue have seen EPA's
librarians "go the extra mile" to assure their service was free 
from the body politic.

While the agency may suffer from politics, the libraries and
librarians certainly do not!

Fred Stoss
University at Buffalo