... and agency action, to a concern which virtually disappeared from public notice and from the national environmental agenda. Medical waste regulations have been adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and programs based on those regulations have been implemented in several states...

... created at much the same time. As I noted earlier, OSHA has had a history of mounting misfortune similar to that of such agencies as EPA, the FTC, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Why is it that so many agencies involved in transferring resources by regulation from private...

..., and Thomas Ilgen. 1985 . Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Bryner , Gary C. 1987 . Bureaucratic Discretion: Law and Policy in Federal Regulatory Agencies. New York: Pergamon. Cohen , Steven . 1986 . EPA...

.... , and A. Tarlock. 1974 . The Uses of Scientific Information in Environmental Decision-making. Southern California Law Review 48 : 371 -427. Heath , C. 1991 . Comments Regarding the Epidemiologic Aspects of the October 1990 EPA Review Draft “Evaluation of the Potential Carcinogenicity...

... of the trihalomethane (THM) group that are formed during the disinfection process. Thus, the treatment of water supplies with chlorine, in order to control bacteria which cause waterborne diseases such as typhoid and cholera, has been found to form THMs as a by-product. EPA...

... Association on Prescription Drug Prices, South Portland,ME. Craig, Tim. 2002 . Community Leaders Decry Lobby Firm's Fax: Apparent Support of Prescription Plan Really a Move by Foes. Baltimore Sun , 9 March, A1 . Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). 1999 . Petition, Submitted to Administrator , U.S. EPA...

...’ decade-long story of bureaucratic inadequacy. While Ackerman and Hassler blame much of EPA’s poor performance on the means-forcing statute, they acknowledge that there were opportunities for creative statutory interpretation that EPA did not utilize. The problem here is less...

... and Human Services. 2001 . The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity . Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1999 . EPA's Section 309 Review...

... Analysis: Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities . Washington, DC : Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs . OIRA (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) . 2011 . “ Return Letter to the EPA: National...

... to help speed cleanup by supplying a ready source of revenue, has proved to be a morass. Years and years go by, as companies that have been tagged by EPA as PRPs attempt to mini- mize their financial exposure by trying to drag other firms, whom they claim are also PRPs, into the liability net...

... proposals to rigorous (and, whenever possi- 122 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table 1. Examples of Statutory Risk-Management Approaches Statutory Approach Statute Agency* “ Balancing’ ’ Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and EPA...

... and Benefits Lead-Hazard Reduction . Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . n.d. EPA's Budget and Spending (Enacted Budget for Fiscal Years 1970 – 2011) . www.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget.html (accessed October 28, 2011...

... are from studies published by EPA in 1978 and 1973; the estimates are out-of-date and dubious. This illustrates one of the foremost questions facing policymakers today: How big is the problem? How much hazardous waste is being generated? Is the amount increasing or decreasing? Whose estimates...

... problem. In the late 1960s and early 1970s a significant number of new agencies were created which have been seen as regulating in pursuit of “social” rather than the traditional “economic” goals. Examples include the Envi- ronmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Highway Transporta...

... wastes, radiation, industrial plant smoke, and pesticides, among other sources. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), private in- dustry and the military generate 35 million metric tons of hazardous wastes a year, 90 percent of which is improperly disposed. About 30,000...

... Wood Johnson Foundation to analyze health care needs of the unemployed and their families. John Deegan, Jr., has been appointed Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly with the EPA, Deegan au- thored an EPA final report describing...

.... Their final chapter presents an exhaustive catalogue of such alternative ap- proaches. They assert that adoption of these more fruitful options would be hastened if the EPA, as well as state and local enforcement agencies, restricted itself to “macropolicy,” abandoning “micromanagement.” If broad...

... dropped and owners had a hard time selling. Many residents banded together to push local polluters and government regulators (at all levels) for stricter envi- ronmental standards and cleanups. Activists in the HAPIC did win some victories, such as a Brownfields grant from the EPA. Some...

.... Activists in the HAPIC did win some victories, such as a Brownfields grant from the EPA. Some contaminated spots were remediated, such as the removal of debris from a scrap yard site. Through meticulous research gained through numerous interviews, Checker details how life is lived in a contaminated...

... between exposure to the polluted water and leukemia-has been criticized by the EPA, the Centers for Disease Control, the American Cancer Society, and by other faculty at Harvard. It’s a biased study, the critics say, partly because of its definitional categories and computer models...