Citizen Health & Safety

Watch What You Eat: A Groundbreaking Report on Food-Pathogen Combinations

Four months after President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), a groundbreaking report from the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) has highlighted the ten food-pathogen combinations that are the greatest burden on public health.

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Forcing America to Choose Between Clean Air and a Stable Economy

May 2, 2011 by Matthew Madia

The debate over raising the debt ceiling has become the latest front for the battle over the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect the public from dirty air and climate change by setting standards for greenhouse gases.

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White House Announces Next Steps on Regulatory Review

Apr 27, 2011 by Matthew Madia

White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Cass Sunstein issued a memo April 25 instructing agencies to make public their preliminary plans for reviewing existing rules and to finalize those plans by August.

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Agencies Report Progress on Scientific Integrity – in Private

Apr 22, 2011 by Gavin Baker

Thirty agencies have reported on their progress to strengthen scientific integrity, according to a blog post yesterday by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This week was the deadline to submit those reports, per OSTP director John Holdren's December 2010 memo.

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Issa Feigns Sympathy for Oil Spill’s Victims

Apr 20, 2011 by Matthew Madia

Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is using the one-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster as an opportunity to criticize the Obama administration for exercising more caution when issuing offshore drilling permits. After the spill, “the Administration’s subsequent assault on off-shore drilling has [damaged] economically vulnerable communities,” Issa says.

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Snowe Bill Threatens Small Business Programs, and the Entire Regulatory Safety Net

Apr 19, 2011 by Matthew Madia

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) had a bit of a kerfuffle over a regulatory reform bill Snowe is pushing that would burden regulatory agencies with more paperwork and make it more difficult for them to protect the public. Snowe is trying to attach her bill as an amendment to a small business aid bill.

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Regulations Do Not Hinder U.S. Job Market, Paper Finds

Regulations designed to protect consumers, workers, and the environment do not have a negative impact on the job market and, in some cases, actually spur job creation, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The EPI paper, Regulation, Employment, and the Economy: Fears of job loss are overblown, shows that recent criticism surrounding regulations' impact on jobs is misguided and not reflective of economic data.

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MSHA Finally Bringing Out the Big Guns

Apr 14, 2011 by Matthew Madia

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has added two mines to its Pattern of Violations (POV) list, which triggers closer MSHA scrutiny for mines with historically poor safety records. It is the first time MSHA has listed a mine in the POV program’s 33-year history.

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FDA Makes Food Recall Search Consumer-Friendly

Apr 12, 2011 by Hal Gordon*

Last week, the FDA announced the release of a new Web search tool that will allow quicker and easier product recall searches. A new, consumer-friendly search tool covering food, drug, animal product, and medical device recalls, was mandated by the recently enacted FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

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Regulations Benefit Job Market, Report Shows

Apr 12, 2011 by Matthew Madia

Contrary to the claims of congressional Republicans, regulations are not job-killers. According to a research paper released today by the Economic Policy Institute, regulations do not cause a significant negative impact on the labor market. In fact, for some industries, regulations actually result in job growth.

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