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Senate sludge meeting abruptly canceled
A U.S. Senate Committee briefing on the safety and science of land applying sewage sludge this morning was canceled at the last minute. Staff for the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by our own Sen. Barbara Boxer, said the hearing was called off after the committee learned late last night of a legal issue one of the witnesses is involved in related to sludge. Staff said the meeting was called off to ensure the focus of the hearing was the U.S. EPA's sludge spreading program and not a particular legal case. The cancellation comes after another last-minute switch earlier this week when committee Democrats downgraded a planned hearing on the issue to a briefing. The focus of the briefing was to be the science and safety issues related to EPA's sludge program. EPA had declined to participate, however. Committee staff said a briefing or hearing will be rescheduled for next year.
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adampayne
on Sep 11, 2008 at 06:34 PM
No surprise the EPA is a no show for a Democratic chaired Senate Committee hearing. This is just another blatant example of how partisanship has infected government bureacracy under George W. Bush. The worst and most lasting legacy of this Administration is how Bush poisoned federal civil service by allowing only party loyalists to get placed in these various departments, which formerly were non-partisan jobs.
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