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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Ilaine who wrote (60847)8/16/2004 4:03:15 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793817
 
Am I missing the point? Are consensuses important to regulators in and of themselves even when they may be based on faulty data?


I don't think it's a question of faulty data. If the legislation provides an avenue to clean up faulty data, then it's a Good Thing for everyone. What's in question is the "unsettled" science. Do we use a standard of beyond a reasonable doubt or the preponderance of evidence, to put in in your language.

It used to be that regulatory agencies and their scientists had more control over the point at which they deemed the science settled enough to warrant regulation. When they thought it was time they proposed regulation and were usually able to negotiate <g> some agreeable outcome with industry.

Now the regulated have a tool to either get the determination made in the political arena--OMB rather than the agency scientists--or to delay the regulation indefinitely until such time as the science is more settled, which may be never. Waiting for more settled science could be a positive or a negative. Not so the OMB role, IMO. I don't think that anything that politicizes these things further is helpful and there's certainly plenty of opportunity for abuse in this law rather like the way the Endangered Species Act is used in ways in which it wasn't intended.
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