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Critics Protest Plans to Shutter EPA Libraries

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September 29, 2006

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to close several of its libraries by Oct. 1. The agency says it will eventually make its records available online. Critics say the move will make much of the agency's work inaccessible to its employees and the public, and could make it harder to prosecute polluters.

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