Lawmakers Order EPA To Clean Up Work Environment
Author(s) -
Nicole Ruediger
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the scientific world journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 2356-6140
pISSN - 1537-744X
DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2000.3
Subject(s) - superfund , agency (philosophy) , witness , work (physics) , work environment , order (exchange) , public administration , political science , law , environmental protection , business , environmental science , waste management , sociology , hazardous waste , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering , social science
Washington, Oct 6 — On Wednesday, members of Congress ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do a “Superfund” cleanup of its own work environment. For 3 hours, lawmakers and the public listened as witnesses testified to patterns of intolerance, discrimination, and retaliation within the EPA — “This agency is run like a 21st century plantation and this has to stop,” said witness and EPA policy analyst Marsha Coleman-Adebayo.
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