Union of Concerned Scientists | Center for Effective Government

Scientists and Economists Agree – Health and Safety Regulations Are Good for Our Health and Good for the Economy

Jul 20, 2011 by Cassandra Lovejoy*

Health and safety advocates have argued for decades that investments in clean energy and environmental protections help to create jobs. Time and time again, reports have shown that supporting clean energy fosters the development of new, job-creating industries, and that compliance with environmental health and safety standards encourages companies to hire new workers and invest in local economies. A host of new studies published in the past week provide even more support for those claims.

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Interior Does About-face on Scientific Integrity

Oct 1, 2010 by Gavin Baker

This week, the Interior Department released a new policy to protect scientific integrity in the department. OMB Watch joined other public interest groups in submitting comments on the department's draft policy in September. The new policy attempts to address concerns, raised in those comments and others, that the draft policy did not go far enough to prevent abuses of the department's scientific activities and decision making.

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Proposed Interior Policy Inadequate to Protect Scientific Integrity

Sep 21, 2010 by Gavin Baker

Today, OMB Watch joined comments filed by the Union of Concerned Scientists and other public interest and environmental groups on the Interior Department's proposed scientific integrity policy. Unfortunately, the policy fails to address the full range of threats to scientific integrity at DOI, such as those evidenced by abuses at the former Minerals Management Service.

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