EPA Streamlines Troubled National Ecological Survey

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had big plans for its Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) when it was launched in 1989. Each year, at thousands of sites throughput the United States, EPA scientists would collect baseline data on everything from the number of amphibians to the health of trees. These data would then be analyzed to see if they reflect broad environmental trends, and the results would feed into EPA's environmental policy-making.