Letter to EPA on industry efforts to stall IRIS toxicological assessment through non-germane comments
Letter to EPA on "filter failure," resulting from industry efforts to stall IRIS toxicological assessment through non-germane comments
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Matt Shudtz
Letter to Senators on Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act
Joint letter to Senators on Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Thomas McGarity, Sidney Shapiro
Letter to ACUS on its bias in favor of industry
Letter to the Administrative Conference of the United States on bias toward the views of regulated industry
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Thomas McGarity
Letter to ACUS on science in the administrative process
Letter to the Administrative Conference of the United States on science in the administrative process. "In particular, we are interested in the recommendations related to the role of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [and its] ...failure to follow the transparency requirements of Executive Order 12,866 and its interference in matters that involve expert scientific judgment.
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Matt Shudtz
Letter to ACUS on collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce
Letter to Administrative Conference of the United States on co-sponsorship of conference on "incorporation by reference" in the international arena with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Author(s): Thomas McGarity
Opportunity Wasted: The Obama Administration's Failure to Adopt Needed Regulatory Safeguards in a Timely Way is Costing Lives and Money
In April 2011, CPR issued a white paper in which a group of Member Scholars and Policy Analysts identified 12 key health, safety, and environmental regulatory actions slowly working their way through the Obama Administration’s regulatory pipeline. In the white paper, Twelve Crucial Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulations: Will the Obama Administration Finish in Time?, the authors warned that the Administration’s failure to adopt a sense of urgency with respect to completing its work had opened the door to the very real prospect that nine of the twelve regulatory actions might get caught up in the backwash of the 2012 presidential campaign, and indeed might never be completed by the current Administration. In this report, CPR follows up to see how the Administration has done.
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, James Goodwin
Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legislators use to protect the public from dangerous products? Drawing together a host of little-known but dramatic cases, Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research, by CPR Member Scholars Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy Wagner, comprehensively documents what has been suspected for years: how extensively scientific data are misused and abused in regulatory and tort law. Sound science is critical to the public policy process, particularly where health and safety issues are concerned. But as Professors McGarity and Wagner show, many interest groups do all they can to influence and undermine independent and honest research, in an effort to bend science to their ideological will.
Author(s): Wendy Wagner, Thomas McGarity