Special Interest Takeover

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Sensible Safeguards Org.

 

Read Special Interest Takeover, a new report by CSS documenting a systematic

attack on public health, safety, and environmental protections over the last

four years. Who are these special interests, and just how much have they taken

over? Click links to read report.

 

Introduction.

 

Special interests have launched a sweeping assault on protections for public

health, safety, the environment, and corporate responsibility - and

unfortunately the Bush administration has given way.

 

 

A Record Of Rollbacks.

 

What corporate interests want, they get -- leaving the public to pay the price.

Whitehouse Roadblock. Where the law demanded government action, White house

regulatory czar John Graham has stepped in to make sure standards were developed

to industry's liking.

 

 

The Toll Of Neglect.

 

The Bush administration has halted progress on health, safety, and the

environment, turning a blind eye to some of the nation's most pressing problems.

 

 

Cop Off The Beat.

 

For standards that remain on the books, the administration is scaling back

enforcement efforts.

 

 

Sworn To Secrecy.

 

The White House has sought to protect itself politically by keeping the public

in the dark or even manufacturing " evidence " for its case.

 

 

Politics Over Science.

 

When science finds a serious health or environmental problem, there is

frequently public pressure to respond through regulatory action, which the

administration is loath to pursue.

 

 

Irresponsible Contracting.

 

From day one the administration tried to repeal contractor responsibility rules

that stop tax dollars from funding chronic lawbreakers and sought to give

government grants to religious groups in a new spoils system.

 

 

Whose Government Is This?

 

The Bush Administration has used government power to reward its special-interest

supporters by appointing industry leaders as regulators and by dismantling

public safeguards altogether.

 

 

 

 

 

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