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On Capitol Hill, CBS' Chip Reid obtained a preview of an expose of footdragging in the regulation of toxic chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to assess 50 different possible pollutants each year. Yet in the past two years the EPA has issued rules for just four. The investigation by the Government Accountability Office blames the White House for adding layers of red tape. Reid showed us before-and-after flow charts to demonstrate the "layer after layer of review" imposed by the Office of Management and Budget. "Endless delays and secrecy," was how the GAO report put it, leaving formaldehyde and polluted drinking water unregulated. OMB, in its own defense, called improving the "quality of the end product" more important than "timeliness."
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