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Professor nominated to position overseeing FedOSHA.
Epidemiologist David Michaels will be nominated by the White House to run the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Michaels has been a notable advocate for workers to be compensated for health risks from chemicals. Las Vegas Sun, Nevada. 29 July 2009.
House panel wants new review of BPA safety.
A congressional committee is investigating whether the FDA gave undue influence to chemical makers after several recent reports in the Journal Sentinel revealed how government regulators relied heavily on industry lobbyists when considering the safety of bisphenol A. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. 3 June 2009.
Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science.
Call major environmental groups and ask them about Roger Bate. The reply is always: Who? Few know he's the man who spread the myth that environmentalists, by fighting to ban DDT, have heartlessly caused millions of malaria deaths worldwide. Natural Resources News Service. 1 June 2009.
Obama's nod to science.
President Barack Obama has signed orders that, observers say, underscore his Administration's commitment to science. Specifically, Obama signed an executive memorandum to ensure that scientific policy decisions are based on facts and not ideology. Chemical & Engineering News. 15 March 2009.
Political lobbying drove FDA process.
The approval of a new device to treat knee injuries followed a lobbying campaign that overcame repeated rejections by scientists within the Food and Drug Administration. Some at the FDA say it shows how political and industry pressure can influence scientific conclusions. Wall Street Journal. 6 March 2009.
Manufacturing doubt in product defense .
What is the product-defense industry? How does it work, and who's behind it? Fast Company. 18 January 2009.
Under Bush, science learned it must speak up.
George W. Bush will leave a legacy of increasing global warming and politicized public health. But he also leaves a generation of scientists who have found their voices at a time when our greatest policy challenges have a scientific component. First of two parts. Miller-McCune. 18 December 2008.
Cautious optimism for Obama's policy on science.
Many of the scientific troubles Barack Obama inherits in the federal government aren’t about money. They strike at deeper questions of scientific integrity and the process government uses to include science in policymaking. Second of two parts. Miller-McCune. 18 December 2008.
Bush-appointed official twisted species data, report says.
A disgraced Bush administration appointee known for twisting science and altering key endangered species decisions interfered with far more findings than earlier revealed, according to a federal probe released Monday. Portland Oregonian, Oregon. 16 December 2008.
An eroding mission at EPA.
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, whose image over four years morphed from scientist to ideologue, will leave office as one of Bush's most loyal and controversial cabinet members. His decisions alarmed environmentalists, infuriated his own scientists, and led to calls from Democrats for his resignation. Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania. 7 December 2008.
Obama victory raises hopes for new policies, bigger budgets.
U.S. scientists hope that the election of Barack Obama as president and a larger Democratic majority in both houses of Congress will usher in an era of sustained, healthy increases in the federal funding of basic research. But money isn't everything. Science. 19 November 2008.
Bush may introduce environmental regulations.
In its waning days, the administration of President George W. Bush may roll out a number of new environmental regulations, the effects of which could persist long after Bush leaves office on 20 January 2009. Nature. 5 November 2008.
Despite sceptics' noise, scientific consensus is growing.
Anyone keeping up with current affairs could be forgiven for thinking scientists are riven with doubt over climate change. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 2 August 2008.
4 Senate Dems urge EPA chief to resign.
Four Senate Democrats called on EPA chief Stephen Johnson to resign Tuesday, alleging that he gave misleading testimony to Congress and repeatedly bowed to pressure from the White House to avoid regulating greenhouse gases. San Francisco Chronicle, California. 30 July 2008.
Agencies asked to ease safety rules.
In its final days in power, the Bush White House is rushing to have federal agencies water down the regulation of hazardous substances, lawmakers and public health experts say. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington. 24 July 2008.
It's not the answers that are biased, it's the questions.
One of the eyebrow-raising statistics about the bisphenol A studies is the stark divergence in results, depending on who funded them. This striking difference in studies isn't unique to BPA. Washington Post. Opinion, 15 July 2008.
The attack on science.
There’s a whole industry that’s working to make you, and Congress, uncertain about what science is finding about human health risks. Environment Report, Michigan. 19 May 2008.
Studies on chemical in plastics questioned.
Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about a chemical compound that is central to the multibillion-dollar plastics industry, the FDA has deemed it safe largely because of two studies, both funded by an industry trade group. Washington Post. 27 April 2008.
For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states.
Reportedly, the study's release was blocked because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates. Great Lakes Danger Zones? Published by Center for Public Integrity. 8 February 2008.
Lawmakers fault FEMA on trailers.
Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency manipulated scientific research into the potential danger posed by a toxic gas emitted in trailers still housing tens of thousands of survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Washington Post. 29 January 2008.
Plastic ingested, study finds.
Scientists furious at conclusions reached by a federal panel charged with assessing the safety of a common household chemical, bisphenol A, have retaliated. And they're using science as their weapon. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. 23 January 2008.
Wanted on the Hill: a few good scientists.
If ever there was a time for revenge of the (supposed) nerds, this is it. Partisan rhetoric is clouding debates on global warming, birth control, stem cell research, and evolution. US News & World Report. 10 December 2007.
Warning: Known to cause severe health risks to laboratory animals, bisphenol A is in you.
Investigative reporting finds that the federal government's assurances that bisphenol A is a safe chemical are based on outdated and incomplete government studies and science mostly funded by the chemical industry. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin. 2 December 2007.
UVa hands off duties of climatologist.
The University of Virginia has handed the duties of the climatologist’s office, but not the title, to research coordinator Philip J. “Jerry” Stenger in the wake of climatologist Patrick J. Michaels’ quiet departure from the role. Charlottesville Daily Progress, Virginia. 27 September 2007.
The truth about denial.
If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again. Newsweek. 5 August 2007.
Bush aide blocked report.
A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments. Washington Post. 29 July 2007.
Ex-surgeon general says White House hushed him.
Former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona yesterday accused the Bush administration of muzzling him on sensitive public health issues. Washington Post. 11 July 2007.
The heat is on.
Like all good scientists, Scudder Mackey was skeptical 15 years ago when he began hearing predictions that increasing amounts greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would lead to global warming. But that skepticism has crumbled with mounting evidence. Detroit Metro Times, Michigan. 3 July 2007.
Smithsonian toned down exhibit on Arctic.
The Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit on climate change in the Arctic for fear of angering Congress and the Bush administration, says a former administrator at the museum. Associated Press. 22 May 2007.
School bus company falsified emissions test data, suit says.
Public-interest groups say the company nation's largest school-bus operator has falsified emissions tests on the diesel exhaust-belching vehicles and has failed to warn children exposed to carcinogenic chemicals, as required by California law. San Francisco Chronicle, California. 16 May 2007.
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