A new report from the National Academies of Science says that the "draft bulletin from the White House Office of Management and Budget proposing technical guidance for federal risk assessments should be withdrawn because it would not achieve its stated goal of improving the quality and objectivity of such assessments" The Academies create distinguished panels and send their reports through a rigorous review process before making such recommendations. The panel suggested further that "OMB should issue a new bulletin outlining general risk assessment principles but leave technical guidelines to federal agencies to develop."
Read the full report online.
Read the coverage in the Washington Post.
Comment: The war between the Bush Administration and the scientific community continues! JAD
Friday, January 12, 2007
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From Al Kamen's column yesterday:
Susan E. Dudley, director of the anti-regulatory Mercatus Center at George Mason University, was nominated last year to be regulatory chief at the Office of Management and Budget, a pivotal post for environmental issues. The nomination died last year in the Republican-controlled Congress.
Kamen suggests that the White House plan is now "to put her on the payroll as an adviser and then, at the first opportunity, give her a recess appointment. Such appointments would now be good until the end of 2008, or nearly the end of the administration."
This would put someone in charge at OMB of the environmental regulations that have just been criticized by the Academies.
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