OPPT Newsbreak cancellation

[ttweed@wildrockies.org (Tony Tweedale)]

please take a minute to protest this cancelation to the email indicated
below, and to browner.carol@epamail.epa.gov

Especially after Greenpeace had to cancel its news clips email service,
this has been the only free such service I know of, and saves INVALUABLE
untold hours of scanning the mass media and various scientific/medical j's
for env info.

This is especially a shame given the nonpartisan nature and of the service
and of the recipients; and also given EPA's rhetoric about the importance
of information, e.g.

'As we embark on a new era of information technology and
enhanced public access to data, we are committed to ensuring
that our data are timely, accurate, integrated and useful to
the public and are able to effectively inform our own decision
making,' said the memo."  August 1998
http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/hqirc/enb/enb98/enb0819.htm
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Dear OPPT Newsbreak subscribers and readers:

We regret to announce that, due to budget cuts, OPPT Newsbreak
will be discontinued.  We will cease publication after February
12, 1999.

Please send any questions or comments to oppt.homepage@epa.gov or
use the comments button on the OPPT homepage at
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/.  Back issues are available courtesy
of RTK Net on their website at http://www.rtk.net/T268/

Thanks for your support, and thanks to the many library staff
over the years that have contributed to the production of OPPT
Newsbreak: Toxic News for the Net.

Sincerely,
Linda Miller Poore (GCI Information Services)
Editor-in-chief, OPPT Newsbreak
Head Librarian, OPPTS Chemical Library
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C.