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Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

  UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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Bill Text S. 1378

Small Business Paperwork Reduction Act S. 1378 (Introduced in the Senate July 15, 1999) S 1378 IS 106th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1378 To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, for the purpose of facilitating compliance by small businesses with certain Federal paperwork requirements, to establish a task force to examine the feasibility of streamlining paperwork requirements applicable to small businesses, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 15, 1999

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'Small Business Paperwork Reduction Act' Based on Flawed Premise

The "Small Business Paperwork Reduction Act" (S. 1378) is a bill that starts from a flawed premise, namely that enforcement of public protections should be relaxed for small business, which often has a more difficult time complying with regulations than big business.

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Text of Kyl Rider to Treasury, Postal Services and General Government Appropriations Bill

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is pushing a rider requiring OMB to conduct an expansive study of federal paperwork. This rider is unrealistic, time-consuming, and is likely to give a distorted picture of the regulatory landscape.(OMB Watcher Online article)

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Text of Thompson Rider to Treasury, Postal Services and General Government Appropriations Bill

Sec. 620. (a) In General. – Beginning in calendar year 2002, and each year thereafter, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall prepare and submit to Congress, with the budget submitted under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, an accounting statement and associated report containing–

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Problems with Thompson Regulatory Accounting Rider

Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) is pushing a rider, Sec. 620, Treasury, Postal Services and General Government Appropriations Bill, that would require OMB to conduct a cumulative cost-benefit analysis of all agency rules and paperwork -- referred to as regulatory accounting -- on a permanent basis, each and every year. (OMB Watcher Online article) Sec. 620, Treasury, Postal Services and General Government Appropriations Bill

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Bill Creates GAO Office to Analyze Agency Rules: An Analysis of H.R. 4744

On June 26, Reps. Sue Kelly (R-NY) and David McIntosh (R-IN) introduced the "Truth in Regulating Act of 2000" (H.R. 4744), which seeks to establish an office within GAO to conduct cost-benefit analysis of agency rules at the request of Congress. This legislation is vastly different from the Senate version (S. 1198), which passed by unanimous consent, and contains many of the problems S. 1198 sought to avoid. Specifically:

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Bill Requiring GAO Cost-Benefit Analysis Sent to Floor

The House Government Reform Committee reported legislation (H.R. 4744) to the floor today that would require the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct cost-benefit analysis of agency rules. H.R. 4744 was introduced only three days prior to the markup as a compromise between Reps. Sue Kelly (R-NY) and David McIntosh (R-IN) -- who had introduced separate versions of the legislation (H.R. 3669) & (H.R. 3521) earlier in the year.

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Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) Comments on the Truth in Regulating Act of 2000

Taken from the 2000 Congressional Record, Start page H8706 TRUTH IN REGULATING ACT OF 2000 (House of Representatives - October 03, 2000) The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan). [TIME: 1915] Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, S. 1198 is Truth in Regulating Act of 2000. It is a bipartisan good government bill. It establishes a regulatory analysis function with the General Accounting Office.

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Graham Reasserts White House Regulatory Review

Before Christine Todd Whitman can issue a new standard protecting against arsenic in drinking water, she must get his approval. Ditto if Tommy Thompson wants to collect information on nursing home performance. Or if Ann Veneman wants to require new testing for listeria in meat products. In fact, no health, safety, or environmental standard is beyond his reach.

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States Slack Off on Environmental Enforcement

In Baytown, Texas, there sits an Exxon Mobil oil refinery -- the nation's largest -- with one pitiful environmental record. As documented in this report from the SEED Coalition, the plant has repeatedly violated state and federal laws -- frequently releasing large volumes of pollution on an unsuspecting public without reporting plant problems to the proper authorities. Over the last several years, the refinery has been guilty of dozens of incidents resulting in excessive emissions.

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Living in the Shadow of Danger: Poverty, Race, and Unequal Chemical Facility Hazards

People of color and people living in poverty, especially poor children of color, are significantly more likely...

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A Tale of Two Retirements: One for CEOs and One for the Rest of Us

The 100 largest CEO retirement funds are worth a combined $4.9 billion, equal to the entire retirement account savings of 41 percent of American fam...

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Blowing Smoke: Chemical Companies Say “Trust Us,” But Environmental and Workplace Safety Violations Belie Their Rhetoric

Large chemical companies a...

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Gasping for Support: Implementation of Tougher Air Quality Standards Will Require New Funds for State Agencies

New scientific research shows that the current levels of...

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