OMB Watch has launched an action alert to prevent the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from gutting its OA database on toxic pollution in the United States. Excerpt:
Tell Congress to stop the EPA from rolling back reporting requirements on toxic pollution. In the new Congress, the House and Senate have another chance to stop the EPA from implementing roll backs to toxic chemical reporting. Tell your Representative and Senators: Support the Toxic Right to Know Protection Act. The TRI is our country's best source of health and safety information. If Congress passes the Toxic Right to Know Protection Act, it will be a step forward in saving TRI.
The House of Representatives heard your earlier calls to stop the EPA from destroying our nation's premier tool for public notification about toxic pollution - the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Unfortunately, the Senate never got around to voting on the Bill. We now have another chance to stop EPA from harming our right to know.
PS: The action alert makes it easy to send a message supporting the bill to the director of the EPA and your Congressional delegation. US citizens: please send that message and spread the word.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/19/2007 11:38:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
