Clinton releases oceans report

Clinton and Crime

The Clinton Regulatory Legacy

a 1993 executive order, similar to two Reagan orders that it replaced, requiring most proposed regulations to undergo economic and risk analyses. In 1996, the Office of Management and Budget issued more detailed guidelines on how to conduct those analyses, consistent with the Clinton order. Those measures would have provided an adequate basis for review of agency-proposed rules if the administr...

Clinton offers healthcare funding ideas.

In his State of the Union address to Congress last week, President Clinton presented a shopping list of new programmes, ideas, and funding plans, including several related to health and health care. At the top of the list was a blueprint to ensure Medicare’s financial viability into the 21st century. With the first “black ink” budget in 30 years—and projections of surpluses for the next 15— the...

SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING: CDC Releases Updated Biomonitoring Report

Biomonitoring—the science of measuring environmental chemicals in human blood, urine, and other tissues—made another modest advance with the 10 December 2009 release of the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report includes data on 75 substances not in the preceding report, for a total of 212 reported ...

Governments take a hit as CMA releases report card.