Reply #2: This article does not mention a single environmental group that [View All]

[Zorra]

responded in a genuinely complimentary way to the new EPA guidelines. In fact, the only environmental group mentioned by name in the posted article was this one, and it is not exactly bubbling over with praise for the EPA:

"They mostly did the right thing," John Walke, the director of the Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said of the new guidelines. "They're long overdue and responsible in the way they update protections for children."

Mr. Walke's organization was one of the few environmental groups to temper its appreciation for the new guidelines by raising concerns over language inserted by the Office of Management and Budget that allows outside groups to challenge scientific conclusions before they become part of the new guidelines. Dr. Jennifer Sass, a defense council senior scientist, said that such "expert elicitation" provides an open invitation to the chemical industry to weaken the guidelines and to delay their being put in place.

What kind of journalism is that? The headline of this article is misleading, not backed up by the content of the article, and unfortunately, given today's journalistic climate, leads me to suspect it is straight from the WH propaganda mill.