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Hearing On The American Energy Initiative Transparency In Regulatory Analysis Of Impacts On The Nation Act Of 2011, Rena I. Steinzor Sep 2011

Hearing On The American Energy Initiative Transparency In Regulatory Analysis Of Impacts On The Nation Act Of 2011, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

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Epa's Iris Program: Evaluating The Science And Process Behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Rena I. Steinzor Jul 2011

Epa's Iris Program: Evaluating The Science And Process Behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

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Lessons From The North Sea: Should "Safety Cases" Come To America?, Rena I. Steinzor Jan 2011

Lessons From The North Sea: Should "Safety Cases" Come To America?, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer has triggered an intense search for more effective regulatory methods that would prevent such disasters. The new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) is under pressure to adopt the British “safety case” system, which requires the preparation of a facility-specific plan that is typically several hundred pages long. This system is supposed to inculcate a “safety culture” within companies that operate offshore in the British portion of the North Sea because it overcomes a “box-ticking” mentality and constitutes “bottom up” implementation of safety measures. …