Euthor's abstract:
"Even though overwhelming majorities of the public believe that the government has an important role in protecting the public interest, the Bush administration is continuing to shape regulatory policy in ways that are hostile to the public interest. This administration is failing to give the public the protections we deserve. It continues to abandon work on documented public health, safety, and environmental problems. Instead of identifying other priorities for serving the public, this administration is doing nothing. It cannot meet even short-term benchmarks for action, and it is allowing proposals for addressing long-identified needs to languish on its regulatory agenda. Finally, what little this administration has accomplished is not strong enough to meet the public's needs but, instead, is weakened at the behest of industry interests.
In this analysis, we looked at four agencies that are particularly important to the public interest: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We looked at the agencies' record from the last year, and we built on that analysis to get a comprehensive picture of the Bush administration's regulatory record to date. "

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