A new report from the Government Accountability Office shows the EPA may have forgotten what the P in their name stands for, especially when it comes to kids. According to the report, over the past decade, the Environmental Protection Agency relaxed its commitment to keep children safe from the dangerous effects of pollution and officials habitually ignored the recommendations put forth by the agency's own children's health advisory committee. (Or as Sen. Frank Lautenberg - D., NJ - put it, efforts to protect children from environmental hazards "ground to a halt during the Bush administration" and the EPA office for children's health "withered on the vine.") For example, in 2008, the head of the EPA's children's office at the time — a woman named Ruth McCully — told investigators it just "wasn't her job to determine whether the air outside schools contained high levels of toxic chemicals."
