Update on Environmental Health Perspectives

I’ve posted a story over on Daily Kos about the efforts of the NIEHS director to neuter the effectiveness of Environmental Health Perspectives (over in the blogroll), the premier scientific journal on all matters related to the health effects from toxic substances in the environment, global climate change and other matters related to environmental health.

The best sound-bite about this matter is the news that the NIEHS director David Schwartz wanted to outsource publication of EHP because its budget could be better spent on other things — especially research. According to the Society of Environmental Journalists, the plan is to cut EHP's annual budget from over $3 million in 2005 down to about $500,000. That is about half of what Director Schwartz spent remodeling his office after he arrived at NIEHS — an office that had just been remodeled.

Hat tip to Effect Measure and SEJ for being on top of this story.