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Items Tagged with 'oira'

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New OIRA head expected to help repeal regs

March 15, 2017
President Trump is reportedly close to filling the position that will be instrumental in helping him reach his goal of eliminating 75 percent of all federal regulations.
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Government watchdog group frustrated with Obama’s weak regulatory agenda

Silica exposure rule could see movement, though
July 22, 2013

The 2013 spring agenda published by White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) earlier this month fails to show a strong commitment to advancing public health, safety or environmental protections, according to the Center for Effective Government, a D.C. watchdog group.


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Senator blasts OMB over delayed regulatory reviews

OSHA’s silica standard: 829 days and counting
May 15, 2013

In a letter sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) last week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) blasted the agency for failing to complete its review of OSHA’s proposed crystalline silica standard and other regulatory items within the legally mandated time frame.


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Regulatory tsunami, what tsunami?

January 4, 2013

Congressional opponents of public protections spent much of 2012 attempting to increase the procedural hurdles to establishing new rules that would implement federal laws and standards according to the regulatory watchdog group OMB Watch. Efforts to attack the scientific evidence employed by agencies continued.


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Regulatory roadblocks of 2012 likely to remain in 2013

December 21, 2012

A government watchdog group says that anti-regulation lawmakers used procedural hurdles and attacks on science to block new federal laws standards in 2012  - and that they're likely to continue that strategy in the coming year. "Both efforts are likely to re-emerge next year,” predicts OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that monitors actions by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).


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regulations

Will new term bring movement on stalled regs?

November 28, 2012

At least one advocacy group is hoping that, with the presidential election out of the way, the Obama administration will move to strengthen health, safety, and environmental protections that got stalled during the administration’s first term.


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White House no friend of OSHA?

Celeste Monforton DrPH, MPH
November 28, 2012

Shortly after taking office, the head of the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) acknowledged the troubling slow pace at which new worker safety regulations are put in place. 


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silicosis exposure

AIHA urges OMB to end delays, complete review of proposed silica rule

Warns about "political influence"
November 10, 2011

Extending a review of OSHA's proposed crystalline silica standard allows certain industry groups to attempt to "short circuit" the existing process -- and makes it vulnerable to political influence, according to the American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA).


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