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University New Orleans College of Law Professor, Former EPA Official
The board of directors of the Center for Progressive Reform today announced the appointment of Robert R.M. Verchick to be the organization's third president, succeeding Rena Steinzor, who has served in the post for the past seven years.
Verchick holds the Gauthier~St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, and is also the Faculty Director of Loyola's Center for Environmental Law. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow in Disaster Resilience Leadership at Tulane University. He is an expert in climate change law, disaster law, and environmental regulation. In 2009 and 2010, he served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In that role he helped develop climate adaptation policy for the EPA and served on President Obama's Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. In the fall of 2012, he researched climate adaptation policies in India as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, supported by a Fulbright Award.
Verchick succeeds Professor Rena Steinzor of the University of Maryland's Carey School of Law, who has served in the post since January of 2008. Steinzor continues as a Member Scholar of the organization.
"Rob Verchick is the ideal choice to be CPR's next president," Steinzor said in announcing the transition. "He brings a wealth of policy experience — in government and in academia, and more than that he brings the energy, talent, and enthusiasm to the task that I know will make him a great success. I've enjoyed my work as President of CPR more than words can express, and I'm particularly proud to have been able to guide the organization to the point that a second generation of organizational leaders, led by Rob, is now taking on the challenge of guiding the organization. That's a milestone for us, as it would be for any organization."Full text
Last December, the Justice Department announced the indictiment of the owner/head pharmacist, the supervising pharmacist, and 12 others associated with the New England Compounding Compounding Center. The 131-count indictment, which included 25 charges of second-degree murder, grew out of a 2012 outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by contaminated drugs manufactured by the company. More than 750 patients were diagnosed with the illness as a result, and 64 patients in nine states died from it. ?
In a February 28, 2015, op-ed in USA Today, CPR President Rena Steinzor, author of Why Not Jail? Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction, recounts the story and then takes a look at how policymakers reacted, and what came of their response. The tragedy laid bare a gaping hole in the nation's regulatory fabric, and rather than addressing it with straightforward legislation and resources to enforce it, Congress pass a "market-based" bill that allowed individual compounding pharmacies to decide for themselves if they'd like to be regulated or not. She writes:
In March 2013, Congress passed bipartisan legislation to fix the problem. Incredibly, though, it allowed compounding pharmacists to decide whether to volunteer to be regulated. Unless they register with the FDA, the agency has no way of knowing about them except through patient and medical professional complaints, a reporting method that in many cases comes far too late. The rationale? Market forces will take care of the problem because no hospital or treatment center will want to deal with an unregistered company.
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In an op-ed published in The Hill on Friday, CPR President Rena Steinzor makes the case that in appointing a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama needs to find a prosecutor tough enough to go after corporate malfeasance with more than a series of comparatively weak deferred prosecution agreements.
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Of course, prosecutors can't send corporations to jail — they are inanimate paper entities. But forcing them to acknowledge that they broke criminal laws is more than a symbolic gesture, which is why corporate lawyers work so hard to avoid such outcomes. The stigma of such guilty pleas lasts, rightly spooking existing and would-be investors.
Holder's record in this area is tainted by his embrace of the "too big to jail" argument that the collateral damage from going after even the most serious corporate malefactors is intolerable. She writes,
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This egregious off-ramp was spawned by the distorted fable the Fortune 100 have spun to explain the demise of Arthur Andersen, which followed its gigantic client, Enron, out of business within months after the sham finances they had erected together hit the press. The fable attributes Andersen's collapse to a criminal indictment lodged by Justice Department prosecutors. In truth, its clients had deserted the firm in droves when it was first implicated in the scandal, and the disclosure that employees had shredded tons of paper as soon as Enron was discredited hastened this exodus.
A group of eight CPR Member Scholars today submitted a letter to Reps. David Schweikert and Suzanne Bonamici, the chair and ranking member, respectively, of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Subcommittee on the Environment. The letter levels a series of powerful criticisms at Schweikert's proposed "Secret Science Reform Act," yet another in a series of bills from House Republicans aimed at gumming up efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to exercise authority granted it by Congress to protect the environment.
Schweikert and his cosponsors maintain that the EPA is adopting regulations based on science that should be available to the public, but is not. That's true. But the bill steers clear of the actual problem, and instead focuses on harassing EPA regulators. The real problem with secret science in the regulatory process is that industry science is carefully shielded from public scrutiny by statute. By contrast, the studies Schweikert goes after are typically published in peer-reviewed journals. As the scholars write,
H.R. 4012 threatens to undermine the scientific rigor of EPA's decision-making while leaving the true "secret science" problem untouched. "Secret science" is indeed pervasive in some regulatory programs, yet H.R. 4012 does nothing to address the most serious problems since it inoculates from its reach existing, outdated legal provisions that tolerate the sequestration of research. For example, under Section 10(g) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the public and affected parties are not allowed to view the studies underlying EPA's licensing of pesticides until after the agency's registration decision is concluded, and even then the research is available only to the public under tightly constrained circumstances. 1 Even more problematic, as a result of aggressive trade secret claims, the research on the safety of more than 17,000 chemicals regulated by EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act is completely insulated from public view by law. Such impediments to public access undermine independent evaluations of the evidence used by EPA in its regulation, yet they remain untouched by the very bill that promises to expose this secret science.
By contrast, H.R. 4012 targets publicly available research, much of which has been published in peer reviewed journals, as the area in need of heightened transparency. Even more perplexing, the bill tasks EPA -- not the researchers -- with the enormous task of amassing the data underlying each relevant study. If EPA is unable to summon the resources or time to access this underlying information or is otherwise unable to acquire the data, it is apparently prohibited from considering the stud(ies) in its regulatory decision.
The scholars go on to criticize the proposal because it would impose significant new costs that are "disproportionate to any plausible benefits," and "facilitate further mechanisms for harassing scientists."
The co-authors are CPR Member Scholars John Applegate, Holly Doremus, Emily Hammond, Thomas McGarity, Noah Sachs, Sidney Shapiro, Rena Steinzor and Wendy Wagner.
NRDC's John Walke live-tweeted Schweiker's hearing this morning on the bill. Take a look.Full text
Yesterday, Catherine Jones, CPR's Operations and Finance Manager, received Public Citizen's 11th annual Phyllis McCarthy Public Service Award, in recognition of her contributions to the organization and the nonprofit community.
Catherine's been with CPR for eight of our eleven years, and she's been a lynchpin of the organization for most of that time. CPR began small — first as an idea shared by a group of scholars around a restaurant table — then morphed into a somewhat more formal gathering of scholars, and then over the course of a few years grew out of its "garage band" phase into the full-fledged organization that's now making a real difference.
Anyone who's ever built an organization of any type — a nonprofit, a small business, a theater company, you name it — will recognize the challenges inherent in organizational evolution of that sort. Catherine made — and makes — it possible. She figured out how to navigate the challenges of tax filings and unemployment, she built the scaffolding for our fundraising efforts, she devised ways for us to function as the virtual organization that we are with staffers scattered across the region and scholars across the nation.
As CPR Executive Director Jake Caldwell said in nominating her for the award, "Catherine handles every such task with an incredible amount of good humor, patience and persistence, giving our virtual group a strong sense of cohesiveness and structure…. Catherine is the foundation that enables all of us to work at our full capacity at CPR. She truly amplifies our effectiveness and voice with her talents and support. And because she shares our values, we also benefit from her enthusiasm and sense of purpose."
The award is named for Phyllis McCarthy, a 24-year employee of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, who passed away in November 2002. She worked for 24 years as a managing editor and office manager, playing an integral part in the development and preparation of publications, reports, medical journal articles and petitions to government agencies. The award recognizes individuals who have worked long and hard for a public interest group, performing critical functions as did McCarthy, but who have not received public credit commensurate with their contributions.
Catherine said in her remarks accepting the award that "service to a worthy cause is its own reward." She's exactly right about that, of course, and she brings to the task a palpable sense of joy and fulfillment that makes everyone else's job more fulfilling, too.
We're all incredibly proud of her, and grateful to Public Citizen for recognizing her outstanding work.Full text
Update: Verchick's testimony is here.
On Thursday, August 22, CPR Member Scholar Robert R.M. Verchick will testify before California's "Little Hoover Commission" about land-use planning to address the threat of climate change. The Commission is conducting a study of climate-change-adaptation efforts in the state, and Verchick, a professor at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and a former EPA official, will bring his expertise in environmental regulation, climate change adaptation and disaster law to the table.
We'll post his testimony to our website on Thursday, here. But you can also watch the session live. It'll be streamed at http://www.calchannel.com/. (Look for a link to the Little Hoover Commission.) The panel begins at 10:30 Pacific Time (1:30 ET).Full text
CPR Member Scholar John Echeverria has an op-ed in Wednesday's New York Times on the Supreme Court's end-of-term decision in a land-use case, Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District. Although the case has been somewhat overlooked amidst the Court's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, and its landmark decisions on same-sex marriage, it has long-term and critical implications. Echeverria warns that the decision will:
result in long-lasting harm to America's communities. That's because the ruling creates a perverse incentive for municipal governments to reject applications from developers rather than attempt to negotiate project designs that might advance both public and private goals — and it makes it hard for communities to get property owners to pay to mitigate any environmental damage they may cause.
The majority opinion in the case, written by Justice Alito, reverses a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court -- a chain of events with eerie overtones for anyone with a 13-year memory! The ruling blocks a Florida water management district's denial of a developer's application to "fill more than three acres of wetlands in order to build a small shopping center." The district had requested that the builder either reduce the size of the development or make other adjustments to offset the environmental effects of paving over a chunk of Florida's beleaguered wetlands. The developer refused, and thus his application was denied.
But the Supremes regarded that as a "taking" that diminished the value of the developer's property. Echeverria writes:Full text
CPR's Lisa Heinzerling has an article in the most recent issue of the Pace Environmental Law Review, Inside EPA: A Former Insider's Reflections on the Relationship between the Obama EPA and the Obama White House, in which she discusses the ways that the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) under Cass Sustein exercised control over EPA's regulatory process. She writes that, using cost-benefit analysis as a point of access, OIRA
departs considerably from the structure created by the executive orders governing OIRA's process of regulatory review. The distribution of decision-making authority is ad hoc and chaotic rather than predictable and ordered; the rules reviewed are mostly not economically significant but rather, in many cases, are merely of special interest to OIRA staffers; rules fail OIRA review for a variety of reasons, some extra-legal and some simply mysterious; there are no longer any meaningful deadlines for OIRA review; and OIRA does not follow – or allow agencies to follow – most of the transparency requirements of the relevant executive order.
Describing the OIRA process as it actually operates today goes a long way toward previewing the substantive problems with it. The process is utterly opaque. It rests on assertions of decision-making authority that are inconsistent with the statutes the agencies administer. The process diffuses power to such an extent – acceding, depending on the situation, to the views of other Cabinet officers, career staff in other agencies, White House economic offices, members of Congress, the White House Chief of Staff, OIRA career staff, and many more – that at the end of the day no one is accountable for the results it demands (or blocks, in the case of the many rules stalled at OIRA). And, through it all, environmental rules are especially hard hit, from the number of such rules reviewed to the scrutiny they receive to the changes they suffer in the course of the process.
All in all, it is a stinging indictment, offered by a scholar who experienced the relationship between OIRA and the EPA for herself.Full text
Last week, CPR's Tom McGarity had a column in the Christian Science Monitor, describing the ways that the political right's war on regulation and enforcement helped contribute to the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion last month. Today, he's got a separate piece in the Dallas Morning News (and this past Friday, it was in the Houston Chronicle) taking a look at the Texas legislature's response to the disaster.
In the piece, McGarity takes a state legislator to task for declaring — even while the investigation into the West disaster is still ongoing — that "'the state of Texas is in good shape' when it comes to regulatory programs designed to protect its residents from future explosions. Therefore, he didn't see the need for 'any major changes.'"
McGarity notes that Texas doesn't even have an occupational safety and health entity that might have inspected the plant. Had it, he writes, its concern for worker safety
would have alerted it to the risks posed by the ammonium nitrate. And the steps taken to reduce those risks would have protected the entire community of West, not just the workers. When it comes to protecting public health and safety from threats posed by unsafe fertilizer plants in rural areas and equally dangerous industrial operations in major cities, Texas politicians have adopted a Wild West attitude that gives Texas businesses great freedom to innovate and grow the economy. But the Legislature and the governor have been less concerned about ensuring that these companies exercise that freedom in a responsible manner and are held accountable when they don't.
It's well worth the read.Full text
CPR's Tom McGarity has an op-ed in this morning's Christian Science Monitor describing the regulatory environment in which that West, Texas, fertilizer plant came to have a large stockpile of explosive material while operating with little or no oversight from state or federal authorities. An April 17 explosion at the plant claimed at least 15 lives and destroyed several hundred homes.
McGarity notes that Texas has no state program for occupational health and safety, so leaves such matters to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). But with its tiny staff of inspectors (2,400 in all), OSHA's its resources are stretched so thin that it has inspected the plant just once -- in the mid-1980s. Similarly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has insufficient staff to inspect more than once a decade. Meanwhile the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is so small, it can only respond to complaints. He writes:
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These regulatory agencies are supposed to be protecting the public from the risks posed by unsafe workplaces, releases of toxic pollutants, and catastrophic explosions. Yet their failure to focus on the risks posed by the West Fertilizer Company is not atypical. We saw similar failures with the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion (15 workers killed, 170 injured), the 2008 explosion at the Dixie Crystal sugar refinery in Georgia (14 workers killed), and the 2008 explosion at a Bayer CropScience chemical plant in West Virginia (two workers killed).
This lack of attention to the safety of our workplaces and neighborhoods is no accident. It is the product of a concerted attack by the US Chamber of Commerce, industry trade associations, and conservative think tanks on what they see as onerous regulatory programs – but ones that were enacted by Congress over the years to protect the public from irresponsible corporate misconduct.


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While some congregations shun tattoos, other believers see them as a way to share their faith
Karen Totton wasn't pleased when her 21-year-old son came home with a tattoo.
She spent most of her life attending small, rural churches where such adornment was frowned upon, explains the Henderson, Ky., woman. She also doesn't see tattooing's appeal. "I just don't see the point in making myself a walking billboard."
Jeremy Edmondson has some tattoos and says he probably will get more. The 31-year-old pastor of an Evansville Southern Baptist church says his Christian tattoos are ice-breakers that let him share his faith.
Tattoos were once sported mostly by sailors, bikers and people on the fringes of society. "They were an embarrassment," said Douglas Low, a professor of New Testament at Oakland City University, a General Baptist school. "It was clearly understood to be a thing respectable people didn't do."
Now skin art is showing up in all sorts of places and on all kinds of people.
Low noticed how dramatically things had changed a couple of years ago when two students, devoted Christians, discussed their tattoos in class. "It caught me off guard," he said.
Today tattoos have become so respectable, at least in some circles, that four 20-something members of one family in Edmondson's church, Resurgence Church, have the same tattoo. It symbolizes the death and resurrection of Christ, the pastor said.
Some people start out with secular tattoos as teens or young adults, then later have them altered to reflect their new faith or to hide embarrassing messages.
That's what Edmondson did with his first tattoo — a rock group's logo and a snippet of its lyrics, "Love is Suicide" — on his upper arm.
"Now I know that's not true," he said. "When I was in high school I wasn't a believer" in Christ.
The logo and lyrics are now hidden by a "tribal design" that includes the symbol for the Christian Trinity and a Sacred Heart image with thorns.
Clinton Vaught, the 22-year-old youth minister at Resurgence, also got his first tattoo, a heart and bats, before he was a Christian. "I was 17 and I thought it was sweet," Vaught said with a grin. He later had his camouflaged. "It just looked really bad."
Now he has several Christian and secular tattoos, including "Dead to the World" on his arm and "Honor the Sabbath Day and Keep it Holy" on his leg.
"I get a lot of compliments," Vaught said. "Sometimes I feel people are judging me, too."
"I'm using these tattoos as part of my ministry," he said.
"The church," Edmondson said, "has got to get out of the mentality, 'You have to look like I do' in order to come to God."
But some Christians — and believers of other faiths — oppose tattoos for spiritual reasons.
When someone donated several rub-off tattoos for a children's program at a church Totton attended, a parent became irate, she recalled. "I just don't want my kid thinking a tattoo of any kind is acceptable," the mother said.
"I'm very anti-tattoo," said Terry Ruebush, the pastor at Evansville First Seventh-day Adventist Church. "I don't care what form they take."
"The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and we shouldn't defile it," Ruebush said. "If you call yourself a Christian, your body is a representation of Christ and the Holy Spirit." Seventh-day Adventists also believe "the adornment should be on the inside, not on the outside." They also discourage wearing jewelry or much makeup, he said.
"God can use anything," Ruebush said, "but what would he rather have?"
Not tattoos, according to Judaism. "In the Torah, there is a direct commandment we are not to get a tattoo because that's what the pagans used to do," said Rabbi Helen Bar-Yaacov of Temple Adath B'nai Israel in Evansville.
A passage in Leviticus tells Jews not to make gashes on their flesh for the dead or incise any marks on themselves. To say a tattoo is a tool for spreading the faith, Bar-Yaacov said, "would be the equivalent of saying you show your faith by eating pork."
Islam also prohibits tattoos, not because the Quran forbids it, but because of the traditions handed down from the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad, said Dr. Muhammad Hussain with the Islamic Society of Evansville. Tattoos are considered wrong because they could disfigure someone's features. Islam also emphasizes leaving nature alone unless it's necessary to change something, Hussain said.
Other Christian leaders say Christians are not ruled by the Mosaic Law in Leviticus, but by grace.
"In the Old Testament they were identified as believers because of outward appearances. In New Testament days, the Church Age, the Age of Grace," believers are identifiable by "what we are inwardly," said the Rev. Harold Hunter, president of Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary in Newburgh.
Hunter compares the tattoo issue to the early Christians' controversy over eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols. If someone believes wearing a tattoo is wrong, it is wrong for them, he said.
Many area religious leaders said that while they aren't crazy about tattoos, they don't think the Bible categorically forbids them for Christians. Their main objection is the permanency of tattoos and the negative or rebellious attitude they say the designs can project.
Totton said her son's tattoo — the Eagle Scout emblem — on his upper arm is tastefully done. Still, she told him, "you know someday you might want that thing gone."
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Oh sooooooooo adorable
posted 7 years ago
makes a great gift for an animal lover or for the person who is not allowed pets in their apartments
this is cute also for keeping on the sofa or on a bed
plush well put together button eyes...oh i want him now.....
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hi i just came back from rabbat and i can give you a little feedback about local people.most people wear western style clothes like jeans t shirts etc.women also wear jeans,all sort of throusers although some of them wear traditional moroccan clothes.they spend free time in caffes drinking coffie which is so so tasty[if you drink coffie with milk dont forget to ask for it],local tea is also very tasty and all sort of non alcoholic drinks.all drinks costs about 5-6 mdh.
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