Admin. Neglects Health, Safety & Envir. Protections

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Admin. Neglects Health, Safety & Envir. Protections

' The most meaningful and important regulations are invariably deemed “economically significant,” meaning they have an estimated total impact of at least $100 million per year, including benefits. These are the regulations that have broad application, such as EPA’s much-publicized standard on arsenic in drinking water, or OSHA’s now-repealed ergonomics standard.

' In fact, almost all of the many Clinton-era rules that the Bush administration repealed or weakened were economically significant. '

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Administration Advances Few Health, Safety and Environmental Protections

Published On: 01/15/2003 08:17 PM

To read the complete article - with extensive links - click on-- http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1256 / [The above link was found on the OMB Watch website through a Google search on 3/31/04]

Excerpt--

The Bush administration has advanced very few significant health, safety and environmental protections over the last two years -- much fewer than the two previous administrations -- and is quietly scuttling work on a host of protective standards in the regulatory pipeline, according to data compiled by OMB Watch.

Specifically, the administration has:

--Finalized few significant health, safety and environmental protections;
--Proposed few significant protective actions;
--Been far less active than the two previous administrations;
--Generally acted only when it’s compelled to by a statutory or judicial order;
--Watered down protective standards where they have been issued;
--Removed a slew of protective actions from agency regulatory agendas;
--Allowed scores of rulemakings to stagnate; and
--Initiated few new health, safety or environmental rulemakings. .

The complete article provides extensive links under the headings above.

© 2001 OMB Watch

http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1256/1/110/

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