Under Bush, OSHA Mired in Inaction

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Source: Washington Post, Page One

In early 2001, an epidemiologist at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration sought to publish a special bulletin warning dental technicians that they could be exposed to dangerous beryllium alloys while grinding fillings. Health studies showed that even a single day's exposure at the agency's permitted level could lead to incurable lung disease.

After the bulletin was drafted, political appointees at the agency gave a copy to a lobbying firm hired by the country's principal beryllium manufacturer, according to internal OSHA documents. The epidemiologist, Peter Infante, incorporated what he considered reasonable changes requested by the company and won approval from key directorates, but he bristled when the private firm complained again.

"In my 24 years at the Agency, I have never experienced such indecision and delay," Infante wrote in an e-mail to the agency's director of standards in March 2002. Eventually, top OSHA officials decided, over what Infante described in an e-mail to his boss as opposition from "the entire OSHA staff working on beryllium issues," to publish the bulletin with a footnote challenging a key recommendation the firm opposed.

Current and former career officials at OSHA say that such sagas were a recurrent feature during the Bush administration, as political appointees ordered the withdrawal of dozens of workplace health regulations, slow-rolled others, and altered the reach of its warnings and rules in response to industry pressure.

The result is a legacy of unregulation common to several health-protection agencies under Bush: From 2001 to the end of 2007, OSHA officials issued 86 percent fewer rules or regulations termed economically significant by the Office of Management and Budget than their counterparts did during a similar period in President Bill Clinton's tenure, according to White House lists....

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More than two dozen current and former senior career officials further said in interviews that the agency's strategic choices were frequently made without input from its experienced hands. Political appointees "shut us out," a longtime senior career official said....

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1. Unfortunately it's not surprising

Considering how that no good SOB Bush f--ked up every other government department it's not surprising. Especially when it came to the working people of this country - Bush and the GOP have repeatedly shown both through word and through deed that they couldn't care less.

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2. People who were murdered by George W. Bush

Please see my blog for information about numerous people who were murdered by George W. Bush:

Mark Lombardi (former Bush biographer)

Gary Webb (former Bush biographer)

Danny Casolaro (former Bush biographer)

Jim Hatfield (former Bush biographer)

Bob Stevens (former photo editor at The National Enquirer)

Mel Carnahan (former governor of Missouri)

Paul Wellstone (Jewish former U.S. Senator)

Mike Connell (the Bush IT expert who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George Bush’s 2000 and 2004 elections; he planned to tell all)

Margie Schoedinger (African-American woman who had accused Bush of rape and torture and sought action against Bush prior to her death)

Just type any of the names above into the “SEARCH BLOG” function at my blog, and hit “Enter” to find the relevant information (online research).

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B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

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3. look for lots of these tellalls...

as bush goes down the drain