[ShareTompkins] Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

[Allison Wilson]

Published today (Mon 23rd February 2015) in Independent Science News: 

Carol Van Strum's review of: Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (Bloomsbury Press 2014), a new book by Evaggelos Vallianatos (with McKay Jenkins).

http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/poison-spring-the-secret-history-of-pollution-and-the-epa/

Summary: What goes on inside the US Environmental Protection Agency is no longer a mystery. Evaggelos Vallianatos had a twenty five year career as a staff officer in EPA's Pesticides Division. In Poison Spring, Vallianatos calls its activities "The Big Business of Fraudulent Science" and he documents multitudinous ways in which, while he was there, EPA ignored and dismissed scientific evidence of harm for numerous synthetic chemicals. This downplaying of risk by the EPA is not based in the ignorance of regulators; rather, it is a function of their calculated collusion with polluters and "independent" testing organisations. The result is a complex and elaborate illusion of governmental precaution and rigor that, in fact, gives the petrochemical industries and agribusiness free reign. Poison Spring is an essential guide to understanding - and rolling back - industrial and agricultural pollution.

Yours sincerely,

Allison Wilson, PhD
Science Director
The Bioscience Resource Project

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