White House Influence and Interference

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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Graham to be Feted by Industry Lobbyists

Jan 25, 2006 by Guest Blogger

Well, the corporate special interests really did appreciate being placed above the public interest -- so much so, they wanted to put their money where their mouth is and host a reception for outgoing OIRA administrator John Graham. From the Washington Post: Did you mark your calendars next week for a "farewell reception" Tuesday "honoring John Graham ," the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget?

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The Graham Files

Jan 24, 2006 by Guest Blogger

John Graham's upcoming exit as OIRA administrator is definitely an occasion to reflect on his agenda. We have compiled our coverage of Graham's tenure in a new web feature resource, The Graham Files. Check it out, at www.ombwatch.org/files/files/regs/grahamfiles.

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The Graham Files

New from OMB Watch: The Graham Files, a compilation of OMB Watch's analysis and news reports from John Graham's tenure as administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

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Risk Bulletin Advances Graham Anti-Reg Agenda

From cost-benefit guidelines to the new draft policy on risk assessments, White House regulatory czar John Graham has steadily proceeded with a long-range plan laying the groundwork for dramatic limits on public safeguards.

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Circular A-4: Regulatory Analysis

The White House circular governing regulatory impact analyses Download PDF

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Ranking Regulatory "Investments" in Public Health

From FY03 budget volumes: discussion of cost-effectiveness analysis, QALYs, and league tables for ranking regulatory safeguards Download PDF

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White House Proposes Guidelines to Control Agency Risk Assessments

When it rains, it pours: the same day the White House closed the comment period on its proposed bulletin to govern agency guidance practices, the White House Office of Management and Budget released a proposed bulletin to govern agency risk assessments.

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White House 'Guidance' to Burden Agencies, Delay Information

A White House proposal will hinder federal agency efforts to provide important information to the public by opening guidance documents to politicization and industry influence, according to comments filed by Citizens for Sensible Safeguards.

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Reading about Risk

Jan 10, 2006 by Guest Blogger

Click here for a deeply insightful report from Public Citizen on many of the policy issues now at stake in the White House's new Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin. Published when John Graham was nominated to head OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, it tracks the relationship of corporate special interest money and a cottage industry of aggressively manipulating the discourse of risk to pursue anti-regulatory ends. It includes a very thoughtful engagement with the risk scholarship of Graham and his ilk.

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More White House Mischief

Jan 10, 2006 by Guest Blogger

Be sure to check out comments filed by the Citizens for Sensible Safeguards coalition on OMB's Proposed Bulletin on "Good Guidance Practices" -- click here, or wait for tonight's issue of The Watcher for more information. But wait -- there's more.

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