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Corrupt EPA: "Ignore Yucca Mountain"

Embattled EPA ombudsman Robert J. Martin, who was forced out by corrupt corporate lackey Christie Whitman back in April simply for doing his job, revealed that he was pressured by the EPA to stop looking into EPA's radiation standards for Yucca Mountain. Yucca is the seismologically unstable place that Bush, bowing to the nuclear industry, wants to designate as a repository for nuclear waste. Martin began investigating whether EPA's standards would adequately protect the environment and Nevadans at the request of Democratic Representative Shelley Berkley from Nevada. Perhaps the EPA put the brakes on his research for fear he'd find out the truth - that Whitman's EPA couldn't care less about protecting citizens from Yucca's radiation hazards, since Whitman's way more concerned about protecting her boss's campaign coffers.

Robert J. Martin said he clashed with an administrator over whether he had authority to look into the nuclear waste program, and EPA regional officials resisted requests for documents about hazardous materials at the Yucca site and the Nevada Test Site. Martin said he was "pressured to not look at Yucca. This I found disconcerting."

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said it was clear to him that "Mr. Martin was ousted because the bureaucracy of the EPA did not like what he was doing and it was retribution." - - From the Las Vegas Review, with thanks to Democrats.com.