The Obama administration has made government transparency a high priority in its early months, and of all the federal agencies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears to be making the quickest progress in turning rhetoric into action, reported OMB Watch.
Across a range of issues, the EPA is taking proactive steps to improve transparency, collecting and releasing to the public important environmental data needed to protect the environment and public health. Much of this information is actively being pushed out to the public, whereas other releases are only made following lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Read full story.
EPA should not only monitor emissions from US factories, but also estimate the emissions caused by imported products. If this were to be the case, independent monitoring groups would have to certify the factories overseas for US importers.
Posted by: cems | November 12, 2009 at 02:28 PM