Public Citizen's Comments on OMB's 2001 Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits
of Federal Regulations
Imposing Standardized
Cost-Benefit Analysis on Federal Health and Safety Agencies Systematically Overstates
Costs and Understates Benefits of Protective Safeguards, and is a Colossal Waste of Time
and Resources (August 14, 2001)HCRA
Financial Support
>HCRA Funders
>Graham Letter to
Philip Morris Requesting $25,000
>$25,000 Check from PM to
Harvard School of Public Health
>PM Memo: Stop Payment on Check to HCRA
>Kraft Foods Letter to Graham on HCRA Fund
Raising Efforts
Ties to Big Business
>HCRA Funders
>HCRA Executive Council Members
>HCRA
Executive Council Industry Ties
>Society for Risk Analysis Sustaining Members
Working With Philip Morris
>PM Memo: Comment on
Letter from Graham
>Copy of $25,000 Check from PM to Harvard SPH
>PM Memo: Monthly Activities Include
Meeting with Graham
>PM Memo: Stop Payment on Check to HCRA
>Graham Asks PM to Review Book for
Accuracy and Discussed Meetings with Thorne Auchter and Boyden Gray
>Graham Writes PM to ask
"that some arrangement can be made with Kraft."
>Graham Thanks Mayada Logue of PM
for "efforts to expedite Kraft Foods, Inc. gift of $20,000"
>PM Memo: Discussing Food Safety Legislation
with Graham
>Graham Letter to PM Soliciting $50,000
for Risk Symposium
>Graham Letter to Jonathan
Wiener on Risk Assessment and Second Hand Smoke
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Philip Morris
and Kraft Documents
Reports
>Dow
Brand Dioxin: Dow Makes You Poison Great Things
>Safeguards at Risk: John Graham
and Corporate America's Back Door to the Bush White House
Scholarship
>Risk/Risk Tradeoffs in Pesticide
Regulation: Evaluating the Public Health Effects of a Ban on Organophosphate and Carbamate
Pesticides
>HCRA Study
Finds that Restricting Cell Phones While Driving May be Premature, Benefits May Outweigh
Risk; Summary of Study
>New England Journal of
Medicine: Association between Cellular-Telephone Calls and Motor Vehicle Collisions
>JAMA:
The Cost-
Effectiveness of Air Bags by Seating Position
>Use and Safety
of Air Bags Misunderstood
>Airbags’s Teflon Image: A
National Survey of Knowledge and Attitudes |
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Senate Puts Graham on Notice to Protect
Public Health, Safety and the Environment
On July 19 the Senate voted 61 to 37 to
confirm Bush nominee John Graham for the obscure but extremely influential government
position -- Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA),
within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In this role, Graham will serve as the
nation's regulatory gatekeeper, passing judgment over all major national health, safety,
and environmental standards. Over the past decade, Graham has been an ally of the business
community and played a leading role opposing strong government safeguards.
Click here for the statement of
Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook.
Background
John Graham
and Phony Numbers (July 19, 2001)
John
Graham’s Distortions: Study Was Used By Him to Mislead Congress & the Media About
the Cost of Health, Safety and Environmental Regulation
(July 18, 2001)
John Graham and
OSHA Regulation of Hexavalent Chromium
(July 18, 2001)
The John Graham
Nomination: Public Citizen’s Rebuttal to "Who Is Professor John D. Graham? A
Scholarly Response to Public Citizen" (July 18, 2001)
Graham’s
Nomination To Head OMB-OIRA Threatens Health, Safety and Environmental Safeguards
(July 18, 2001)
Background on the
John Graham Nomination (Updated July 13, 2001)
Industry Ally John Graham is Wrong
Choice to Be Nation’s Regulatory Gatekeeper (May 17, 2001)
Public Citizen Report - Safeguards
at Risk: John Graham and Corporate America's Back Door to the Bush White House (March
12, 2001)
- Letter to Sen. Fred Thompson, Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman, Regarding the Safeguards at Risk Report
(March 13, 2001)
OMB Watch Analysis of OIRA:
Assurances Needed for Transparency, Accountability at OIRA (May 5, 2001)
OMB Watch Summary of Concerns
with John Graham
(May 5, 2001)
Opposition Statements and Letters
Statement of Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook: Senate Puts Graham on Notice to Protect Public Health,
Safety and the Environment (July 20, 2001)
Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook Responds to Phineas
Fiske's Column: Graham Puts Corporate Profits Before Human and
Environmental Concerns
(July 12, 2001)
U.S. PIRG Urges the
Senate to Oppose Dr. John Graham as Head of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (June 13, 2001)
The Global Safe
Food Alliance Writes in Opposition to the Graham Nomination
(June 12, 2001)
National
Organizations Opposing John D. Graham (May 30, 2001)
Sen. Joe Lieberman Votes Against Graham; Believes Nominee
Would Weaken Environment, Health and Safety Protections (May 23, 2001)
AFSCME Opposes the Graham Nomination in
Letter to Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (May 21, 2001)
Former Federal Regulators Raise Concerns About
Graham
(May 17, 2001)
AFL-CIO Letter to Sen. Fred Thompson, Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee Chairman, Opposing the Graham Nomination (May 17, 2001)
OMB Watch Letter to Sen. Fred Thompson, Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee Chairman, Opposing the Graham Nomination (May 16, 2001)
National Environmental Trust: Graham Nomination Threatens
Environmental Protections (May 15, 2001)
Natural Resources Defense Council Letter to Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee Criticizing Graham's Anti-Regulatory Record (May 15, 2001)
Natural Resources Defense
Council Press Release Opposing Graham
(March 8, 2001)
32 Scholars
Oppose Graham and Raise Conflict of Interest Concerns
(May 17, 2001)
UAW Letter to Sen. Fred Thompson, Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee Chairman, Opposing the Graham Nomination (May 11, 2001)
Senate Dear Colleague Letter from Sen. Richard Durbin
(D-Ill.): Why the Nomination of John Graham as Administrator of OMB/OIRA Should be Opposed
(May 10, 2001)
Harvard University Faculty Opposed to Graham
Nomination (May 10, 2001)
53 Scholars and
Academics Write the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Opposing the Graham Nomination
(May 9, 2001)
National
Organizations Make the Case Against John Graham to the Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee (April 12, 2001)
Center for Science in the Public Interest Writes President Bush
Criticizing Graham's Strong Ties to Industry (March 7, 2001)
Testimony
Statement of Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook on the
John Graham Nomination to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (May 16, 2001)
Governmental Affairs
Committee Chairman Thompson Criticized for Refusing Witnesses Opposed to Graham
(May 15, 2001)
Testimony
of Professor Lisa Heinzerling, Georgetown University Law Center, Concerning the Nomination
of John Graham (May 10, 2001)
Graham in the News
Washington Post: Overseer
of the Rules for OMB (July 31, 2001)
Los Angeles Times: Don't
Put the Fox in Charge of the Hens (July 19, 2001)
Washington Post: Graham Flunks the
Cost-Benefit Test (July 16, 2001)
Washington Post: Toxic Chemical
Review Process Faulted; Scientists on EPA Advisory Panels Often Have Conflicts of
Interest, GAO Says (July 16, 2001)
Newsday: Public Citizen President
Joan Claybrook Responds to Phineas Fiske's Column: Graham Puts Corporate
Profits Before Human and Environmental Concerns
(July 12, 2001)
Tom Paine.com: Harvard
University's Gift to the Nation: Goodbye to Meddlesome Health, Environment, and Workplace
Safety Rules (June 1, 2001)
Plastics News: Bush’s OIRA Appointee Graham Could Lend
Clout to Plastics
(May 7, 2001)
Washington Post: Nominee's
Business Ties Criticized (May 15, 2001)
Washington Post: Dioxin Report
by EPA on Hold (April 12, 2001)
New York Times: Regulations
Czar Prefers New Path (March 25, 2001)
Boston Globe: Nominee’s
Funding At Issue; Critics of Harvard Risk Analysis See Ties to Industry (March 18,
2001)
Charleston Gazette: Expert Panel Backs EPA
Dioxin Study (October 1, 1995) |
