Obama's Regulatory Czar Deliberately Stalling Toxic Coal Waste Regulation
source: http://www.truthout.org/obamas-regulatory-czar-deliberately-stalling-toxic-coal-waste-regula...
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It may be unsettling to some that the man most responsible for overseeing coal ash regulation within the Obama administration has a track record of siding with polluters instead of the people most affected by toxic waste.
His name is Cass Sunstein and he serves as the little known, yet powerful administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs - aka Obama's "regulatory czar." A long-time friend of the president, Sunstein's law and academic career, which include stints at Harvard and University of Chicago, has focused largely on regulatory policy and behavioral economics. Sunstein, who has written extensively on such matters, has challenged workplace safety laws and even the constitutionality of the Clean Air Act. One might wonder how such a bureaucrat found his way into the Obama administration. However, for those that have kept a watchful eye on Sunstein, they are not surprised by his latest actions that are holding up the regulation of toxic coal waste.
It's not the first time the law professor has dabbled in science. As Sunstein wrote in his 2002 book "Risk and Reason," "it remains unproven that the contamination of Love Canal ever posed significant risks to anyone." Sunstein holds this belief despite the fact that the EPA claims that even 25 years after the Hooker Chemical Company stopped using the Love Canal for an industrial dump, "82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected carcinogens, have been percolating upward through the soil, their drum containers rotting and leaching their contents into the backyards and basements of 100 homes and a public school built on the banks of the canal."
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His name is Cass Sunstein and he serves as the little known, yet powerful administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs - aka Obama's "regulatory czar." A long-time friend of the president, Sunstein's law and academic career, which include stints at Harvard and University of Chicago, has focused largely on regulatory policy and behavioral economics. Sunstein, who has written extensively on such matters, has challenged workplace safety laws and even the constitutionality of the Clean Air Act. One might wonder how such a bureaucrat found his way into the Obama administration. However, for those that have kept a watchful eye on Sunstein, they are not surprised by his latest actions that are holding up the regulation of toxic coal waste.
It's not the first time the law professor has dabbled in science. As Sunstein wrote in his 2002 book "Risk and Reason," "it remains unproven that the contamination of Love Canal ever posed significant risks to anyone." Sunstein holds this belief despite the fact that the EPA claims that even 25 years after the Hooker Chemical Company stopped using the Love Canal for an industrial dump, "82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected carcinogens, have been percolating upward through the soil, their drum containers rotting and leaching their contents into the backyards and basements of 100 homes and a public school built on the banks of the canal."
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Why does this guy have the job?
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