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The article focuses on the development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush administration. It notes that EPA softened regulations that were deemed industry-friendly. The administration shuttered its technical and scientific libraries and lessened the information companies submit on their toxic substance release. EPA became less independent than its predecessors and closely tied to White House ideology.

The article discusses the changes made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning chemical risks and air-quality standards policies created under former U.S. President George W. Bush. EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson carried out a new policy in May 2009 to increase the scientific integrity of an EPA database called Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). Jackson has also changed the policy for reviewing and setting health-based air-quality standards under the Clean Air Act.

The article reports that the administration of U.S. President George Bush appealed in March 2008 a federal court's decision declaring unlawful an Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation to control mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. The EPA regulation limited the amount of neurotoxic metal that utilities could emit and allowed them to trade their mercury emissions permits.