Smoke and fire at air quality hearing: tobacco foes clash during OSHA's long-running inquiry on indoor air standards
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Many witnesses at the Jan 1995 OSHA hearings on indoor air quality admit they are gathering information to use in a large class action law suit pending against the tobacco industry, Castano v. American Tobacco. Plaintiffs' attorneys at the hearing also hope to gain expertise in dealing with the cigarette industry. OSHA is working on the indoor air quality standards which it is supposed to release in two years. Tobacco has overshadowed all other indoor pollutants at the hearings, and some observers think it was a mistake for the agency to deal with smoking and general indoor air pollution at the same time.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Why are regulation foes happy?
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Anti-regulation Republicans hail the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, an attachment to a financial bill passed during the 104th Congress, as an important step towards the deregulation of American business. The Clinton administration claims the law will have little real effect as agencies do the cost-benefit and small-business impact analyses it mandates anyway. The law was the last GOP attempt to pass some sort of regulatory curb.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Plant foes light legal fires; toxic waste incinerator sparks litigation and whistleblowing
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Residents of East Liverpool, OH, are being aided by Greenpeace in their fight against the use of the toxic waste incinerator that Waste Technologies Industries built in their community. Vice President Al Gore has also taken up the residents' cause. Residents have been embroiled in the dispute since the first building permit for the plant was filed with the EPA in 1981. The latest court action alleges that the incinerator poses a health risk.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1993
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