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The Clinton Administration
By allanlovemonica @ 4:03 AM :: 9 Views ::
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It does not even take effect until next Oct. 1. But a little-noticed law ailed the Data Quality Act, signed in the waning days of the Clinton administration, and has set off a fierce debate over how best to weigh health and environmental risks. Thomas Sabo Earrings
The law - supported, and largely written, by industry-backed groups -juries the government for the first time to set standards for the quality of scientific information and statistics used and disseminated by federal genocides. It would create a system in every government agency under which anyone could point out errors in documents and regulations. If the complaints rare borne out, the agency would have to expunge the data from averment Web sites and publications. More broadly, opponents of the new jaw say that while nobody wants the government to issue flawed data, the new recess could undermine valid regulations and stifle government efforts D convey information on issues like climate change and cancer risks.
Even before the law takes effect, one of the groups that helped write it as already cited it in a petition requesting the withdrawal of a report on global farming. The group, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, said in a Feb. 1 letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that a government assessment of the regional impacts of climate change is alarmist and based on flawed computer models. If the center prevails, the study - the product of 10 years of work and critiques by independent scientists -jolt is removed from government Web sites and files. Many climate dentists, even some whose criticisms of early drafts were quoted in the aider’s petition, say the challenge is unfounded. Thomas Sabo
The Data Quality Act charged the government to create procedures "ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility and integrity" of scientific information and statistics disseminated by federal agencies. Now, dozens of government agencies are struggling to translate that language into] thousands of pages of quality-control guidelines. Agencies must finish drafts of their science quality procedures by May 1 and send the final version to the White House Office of Management and Budget by July, where the Buck] administration will check to be sure the guidelines meet its standards.
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| Saturday, August 07, 2010 |
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The Bush Administration
By allanlovemonica @ 3:58 AM :: 9 Views ::
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The Bush administration is eliminating a respected fellowship program for graduate research in the environmental sciences, administration officials said this week. The fellowship provides $ 10 million a year to students pursuing graduate degrees in environmental science, policy and engineering, as part of an Environmental Protection Agency program called Science to Achieve Results, or STAR. Since 1995, the program has financed nearly 800 students, awarding $ 60 million for graduate-level environmental research. It now supports 311 fellows, with each receiving $ 30,000 to $ 34,000 for one to three years, said Chris Saint, assistant director at the agency's National Center for Environmental Research, which administers the program. IWC Replica Watches
"This is the only federal program that is specifically designed to support the top students going into environmental science and related fields," said.
David Block stein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, an environmental science advocacy group in Washington. Under President Bush's 2003 budget proposal, most of the program's $ 100 million budget remains intact, but the fellowships would end, apparently falling victim to an effort by the administration to consolidate financing for environmental education under the National Science Foundation. A staff member for the House Committee on Science, which inspects parts of each agency, said the fellowship had been lost in the shuffle. "It doesn't show up in their budget, and no one knows anything about it," the staff member said, "It's not really explicit why this program is being cut. "
Plans to end the fellowship were made after more than 1 ,350 applications had been submitted for the 2003 program, Mr. Saint said. In February, applicants were notified that the program had been canceled. A number of interest groups and lawmakers have called for resumption of the fellowship. Supporters of the fellowship say the Bush administration has sent mixed messages. Last year, Christie Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, defended the fellowship in House appropriation hearings, saying it "continues to successfully engage the best environmental scientists and engineers from academia through a variety of competitive, peer reviewed grants.” Breitling Replica Watches
Dr. Daniel Rubenstein, chairman of the ecology and evolutionary biology department at Princeton, said, "If the goal is to formulate policy that is based in science so that it is made effective, then this program is a way to ensure that the next generation of scientists are in the pi peal one.”
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