Government Secrecy Laying Waste to the Right to Know: Undermining Health and Safety post 9/11

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Know:</B></div> <div> <B>Undermining Health and Safety post 9/11</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=412 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Rick Blum, OMB Watch*</div> <bR> <div> Over the past several decades, the public's right to know has advanced steadily with new legal foundations, emerging technology tools that have eased public access to and use of information from government, and changes in consumer behavior.  More people read nutrition labels and use identify polluters in their communities to make their families safer and healthier.</div> <bR> <div> The government's reaction to 9/11 -- expanding government secrecy in an unprecedented and accross-the-board strategy -- replaced that sense of optimism with growing concern that decades of prying open the doors of government to the public are quickly being erased, laying the legal basis to make it fundamentally more difficult for consumer groups, food safety advocates, researchers, the press, educators, and community groups to access information to help keep our families and hometowns safe.</div> <bR> <div> *OMB Watch (CFC #1308), 1742 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="industry_influence_on_carcinogens.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Industry Influence on Identifying and Cl"><U>Previous Page</U></A>      <A HREF="environmental_health_and_justice.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Environmental Health and Justice"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table><html><body><a href="http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-safeguard-suite.php"><img border="0" src="http://www.zend.com/images/store/safeguard_optimizer_img.gif" align="right"></a><center><h1>Zend Optimizer not installed</h1></center><p>This file was encoded by the <a href="http://www.zend.com/products/zend_guard">Zend Guard</a>. 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