Saving Science from Politics: Nine Essential Reforms of the Legal System
Saving Science from Politics: Nine Essential Reforms of the Legal System, White Paper 805, July 2008.
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Wendy Wagner, Matt Shudtz
Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution
The term, “Cost-benefit analysis,” is used so frequently that we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. Inventing dollar values for human life and health, endangered species, and fragile ecosystems does not guide us to better policies, he maintains. Cost-benefit analysis, as practiced today, could have led to damming the Grand Canyon for hydroelectric power, leaving lead in gasoline, and other absurd and harmful decisions. In Poisoned for Pennies, Ackerman uses clear, understandable language to describe an alternative, precautionary approach to making decisions under uncertainty.
Author(s): Frank Ackerman
Letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson re IRIS
Member Scholar Rena Steinzor and CPR Policy Analyst Matt Shudtz's April 27, 2008 letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson re the Integrated Risk Information System database
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Matt Shudtz
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids, by Rena Steinzor, White Paper 801, May 2008, a summary of her book by the same name.
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor
Sidney Shapiro's testimony on the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 2008.
Sidney Shapiro's April 2, 2008, testimony before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 2008.
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Author(s): Sidney Shapiro
David Vladeck's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush Administration's push for agency preemption of state tort laws.
David Vladeck's September 12, 2007, testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush Administration's push for agency preemption of state tort laws.
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Author(s): David Vladeck
Markets, Monocultures, and Malnutrition: Agricultural Trade Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens
Markets, Monocultures, and Malnutrition: Agricultural Trade Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens, by Carmen G. Gonzalez, White Paper 702, April 2007.
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Author(s): Carmen Gonzalez
Sequestered Science: Secrets Threatening Public Health
Sequestered Science: Secrets Threatening Public Health, by Rena Steinzor and Matthew Shudtz, White Paper 703, April 2007.
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Author(s): Rena Steinzor, Matt Shudtz