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Hit and run: Reg policy news briefs

Dec 10, 2004 by Guest Blogger

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    Hit and run

    Dec 9, 2004 by Guest Blogger

    • Oh, Crap: The Environmental Protection Agency is close to issuing new guidelines making it easier for sewage authorities to dump partially treated wastewater during heavy rainfalls, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

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    Regs Around the Web

    Dec 8, 2004 by Guest Blogger

    • A coalition of conservation and outdoor industry groups has formally asked the Forest Service to withdraw plans to lease over 20,000 acres for oil and gas drilling in Utah's Uinta National Forest. The leasing would allow industrial development in roadless areas along the Wasatch Front that provide valuable opportunities for hiking, fishing, and hunting, as well as habitat for wildlife such as the Bonneville cutthroat trout and northern goshawk.

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    Environment at risk: no joke

    Dec 5, 2004 by Guest Blogger

    The headline may seem alarmist at first, but in light of the Bush administration's record it's actually quite understated: Bush Sets Out Plan to Dismantle 30 Years of Environmental Laws. The Independent has connected the dots -- and the picture that emerges is pretty dystopic: George Bush's new administration, and its supporters controlling Congress, are setting out to dismantle three decades of US environmental protection.

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    Say good-bye to another species...

    Dec 3, 2004 by Guest Blogger

    First there was the news -- unsurprising, of course -- that environmentalists envision bad times ahead during the second term of the Bush administration. Bad times are officially here: Interior Department biologists have recommended against adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list, a determination that could wind up benefiting natural gas and oil producers but add to environmentalists' concerns.

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    Second Court Rules Data Quality Act Not Judicially Reviewable

    The second federal court to address judicial reviewability of the Data Quality Act (DQA) and its subsequent guidelines has found that neither the DQA nor the Administrative Procedure Act permits judicial review. The court also found that plaintiffs, the Salt Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who filed the lawsuit against the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) over statements about the health benefits from lower sodium diets, lacked any legal standing. Based on these findings, the court dismissed the case on Nov. 15.

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    Critics Diagnose Systemic Maladies of FDA

    A Senate Finance Committee hearing on Vioxx and a series of studies by a leading medical journal reveal systematic breakdowns in FDA's evaluation of drug safety, prompting advocates to call for an independent agency to review drug safety. Drug Researcher Testifies: The System is 'Broken'

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    Reg Round-Up

    How to stay on top of appointments news and rumors • Learn about the mad cow scare — and the unaddressed weaknesses in safeguards against mad cow disease • EPA rollback killing children • And more news briefs and alerts! Do the Cabinet Shuffle: Who will be running the agencies in the next term of the Bush administration? Stay on top of the latest news and rumors in REG•WATCH, our regulatory policy weblog.

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    Graham Defiant in Hearing, Dems Probe Mercury Rule

    The last regulatory policy hearing of a House Government Reform subcommittee was split into two disconnected halves, as committee Republicans considered the White House's policy of inviting industry to suggest rollbacks of regulatory protections while Democrats assailed the Environmental Protection Agency's pending rulemaking for mercury pollution.

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    NAS Biases Panel With Industry Interests

    The National Academies biased a panel to study the risks from disposing coal wastes in abandoned mines by appointing six members with ties to the mining, coal, and electric utility industries, of whom two have subsequently stepped down after criticism from public interest groups.

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