In 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted a new air pollution rule that would exempt many plywood manufacturers from restrictions on the emission of formaldehyde and other pollutants into the air.

Despite compiling hundreds of pages of evidence documenting the harmful effects of atrazine, a commonly used weed killer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to regulate the herbicide.

Internal government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Bush administration officials disregarded scientific studies conducted in preparation of an environmental impact statement on mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.

Department of Health and Human Services, bowing to political pressures, restricted important public health messages about breastfeeding from reaching Americans on at least two occasions.

Federally funded abstinence-only programs use curricula that contain false, misleading or distorted information about reproductive health.

US scientists lost a valuable opportunity to communicate and collaborate with researchers around the world when the Bush administration’s decided to drastically limit its participation in the 2004 International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.

Department of Interior tampered with and ultimately reversed the findings of government biologists regarding the threatened status of the marbled murrelet

In April 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services implemented a new policy requiring that an HHS official approve all experts participating on UN scientific panels, including the World Health Organization.

Federal agency public affairs offices have used "minders" --officials who are assigned to listen in on scientists’ media interviews -- to enforce media policies more restrictively over some climate change scientists.

In 2004 the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) exaggerated the impact of forest fires on spotted owl habitat in an attempt to expand old-growth logging in the Sierra Nevada.