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House Passes Regulatory Accountability Act in Attempt to Make It More...
PRESS RELEASE-For Immediate Release- December 2, 2011Contact: Brian Gumm, (202) 683-4812, bgumm@ombwatch.orgHouse Passes Regulatory Accountability Act in Attempt to Make It More Difficult to Protect...
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House Attack on Public Protections Continues with Passage of the REINS Act
PRESS RELEASE-For Immediate Release- December 7, 2011Contact: Brian Gumm, (202) 683-4812, bgumm@ombwatch.orgHouse Attack on Public Protections Continues with Passage of the REINS ActWASHINGTON, Dec. 7,...
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Third-Party Audits Aren't a Panacea for Increasing Safety
The third-party audit system, in which private companies take over responsibility for inspecting worksites and production facilities, has been shown to expose Americans to significant health and...
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Safeguarding the Public's Health and Safety: The President's FY 2013 Public...
Safeguarding the Public's Health and Safety:The President's FY 2013 Public Protections Funding RequestsWhen public agencies are effective and responsive, the protections they afford to the American...
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Worker Safety Rule Under Review at OIRA for Over a Year: A Tale of Rulemaking...
This year, Feb. 14 signified more than a Valentine’s Day celebration for worker safety advocates. Last Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the regulatory review of a proposed rule issued by the...
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The Regulatory Freeze Act: Legislation to Make the World More Dangerous and...
The so-called Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act, reported out of the House Judiciary Committee earlier today, is the clearest example yet of just how broken the national debate on public protections has...
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Worker-Killing Regulatory Delays
April 28 marked Workers’ Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor and remember workers who have been killed on the job. The majority of these deaths are the result of inadequate health and safety...
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Why Is the Small Business Administration Arguing that Formaldehyde Doesn’t...
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is supposed to protect the interests of small businesses – businesses most Americans define as employing fewer than 100 workers. But a little-known office in the...
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Workplace Safety and Randomized Controlled Trials: Another Weapon of Delay?
A fundamental principle of modern workplace safety laws holds that if scientific evidence suggests the health and safety of the public is at risk, the federal government should step in and take...
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Diesel Exhaust Causes Lung Cancer
For more than a decade, the mining industry has been waging a war to cast doubt on scientific studies showing that diesel exhaust causes lung cancer. Industry lost that fight on June 12 when the...
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Vote Imminent on House Bill that Would Shut Down Safeguards
The House will vote later this week on the misleadingly titled "Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act." The bill is a brazen attempt to shut down the system of public safeguards that...
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The Obama Administration's Regulatory Agenda: Many Overdue Rules Need to Be...
Each year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is supposed to publish two agendas of planned rules and at least one regulatory plan summarizing economically significant rulemakings likely to move...
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Agency Attempts to Block Scientific Assessments of Toxic Chemicals
PRESS RELEASE-For Immediate Release- January 29, 2013Contact: Brian Gumm, bgumm@foreffectivegov.org, 202-683-4812Agency Attempts to Block Scientific Assessments of Toxic ChemicalsNew Report Shows Small...
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Small Businesses, Public Health, and Scientific Integrity
Whose Interests Does the Office of Advocacy at the Small Business Administration Serve?See what the American Sustainable Business Council has to say about this report!Read the full text of Small...
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Anti-Regulatory Forces Target Agency Science to Undermine Health and Safety...
As committees of the 113th Congress begin to implement their agendas, it is increasingly apparent that environmental and health standards, and the science serving as the basis for these protections,...
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OMB, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hold Forum on Trade Agreements and Regulations
On April 10, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) co-hosted a two-day stakeholder session with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as part of its annual High Level Regulatory Cooperation Forum. The forum...
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Honoring Workers with Stronger Standards and Safeguards
Saturday, April 28 is Workers’ Memorial Day, a day to remember and honor those who have died on the job. Workers’ Memorial Day also serves as a reminder of how much progress has been made in protecting...
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President's Spring Agenda Signals Continued Delays on New Rules
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) quietly published its highly anticipated Spring 2013 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda) on July 3. The...
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Public Safeguards Given Little Weight at Conference on Natural Gas Expansion
On July 25, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted an event to explore the impact of the rapid expansion of shale gas on the U.S. economy, trade, and geopolitics. Most of the discussion from panelists...
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New Analysis and Interactive Map Illustrate Dangers of Freight Trains...
PRESS RELEASE-For Immediate Release- Aug. 8, 2013Contact: Brian Gumm, bgumm@foreffectivegov.org, 202-683-4812New Analysis and Interactive Map Illustrate Dangers of Freight Trains Carrying Toxic...
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