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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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Dudley Materials Reappear on Mercatus Website

Earlier this month, OMB Watch reported that articles authored by the nominee to replace John Graham as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Susan Dudley, were no longer available on the website of the Mercatus Center, the industry-backed think tank where Dudley was previously employed. Now, all the missing articles have mysteriously returned to the website and several previously unavailable articles by Dudley have also been posted there.

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With Hearing Possible on Extremist Nominee for Regulatory Czar, Opponents Gear Up for Fight

While a vote on Susan Dudley's nomination to be the new White House regulatory czar has yet to be scheduled, it is rumored that the GOP majority on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will try to push a vote through in September.

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Presentation to NAS Panel on OMB Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin

Download slide presentation by J. Robert Shull to May 2006 meeting of the NAS panel convened to peer review the Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin.

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White House Again Fails to Correct Enormous Errors

Aug 18, 2006 by Guest Blogger

The White House's annual draft "regulatory accounting" report once again fails to correct enormous errors that have been pointed out repeatedly over the years. There has been a very nice improvement: finally, many of the cost-benefit analyses used in the report are identified and in some cases linked to.

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Comments on 2006 Draft Regulatory Accounting Report

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Dudley: The Missing Docs

Aug 10, 2006 by Guest Blogger

Well, it didn't take too long at all -- the Mercatus Center has silently restored the documents OMB Watch identified as missing from Susan Dudley's profile page. Now you can read for yourself why she hates the Davis-Bacon Act, thinks that giving the public a right to know about the toxic hazards it is exposed to should be eliminated or weakened in the name of fighting te

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Keep Your Eye on Dudley

Aug 8, 2006 by Guest Blogger

... with DudleyWatch, your home for analysis, background, news, and more about the White House's decision to nominate industry-backed extremist Susan Dudley to the chief regulatory policy job in the White House.

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Get to Know Susan Dudley

In the coming weeks, we will post more straight from Dudley herself. For now, check out this sampler of her positions on important public protections.
  • On Davis-Bacon: "The prevailing wage requirement does not offer net benefits to society, but rather reflects a transfer from low-skilled and low-wage workers to skilled and union workers . . . . There is no economic justification for a federal role in defining construction practices and determining wages, as required by the Davis-Bacon Act." DOL's Proposal Governing Helpers on Davis-Bacon Act Projects (June 8, 1999)

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What Mercatus Doesn't Want You to Know

The Mercatus Center website has a listing of Dudley's work -- but that listing has recently been revised, and now some of Dudley's comments, testimony, and other materials are gone. UPDATE: Mercatus has silently restored the missing documents, and added more, to Dudley's profile page. Aug. 10, 2006

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Bush Nominates Anti-Regulatory Zealot to Head Regulatory Policy

The White House has nominated Susan Dudley, an anti-regulatory extremist from the industry-funded Mercatus Center, to an obscure but powerful office where she would have the power to gut the federal government's very ability to protect the public.

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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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