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Popular Press
Testimony before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee ...
Congressional Testimony (2014)
Rena I. Steinzor
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Testimony before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on ...
Congressional Testimony (2014)
Rena I. Steinzor
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Unpublished Paper
Consequences for Cleanup: EPA Gets Serious about Weak Watershed Improvement ...
Faculty Scholarship (2014)
Rena I. Steinzor and Anne Havemann
In a landmark series of reports issued on June 26, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put the seven jurisdictions ...
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Book
Winning Safer Workplaces: A Manual for State and Local Policy ...
Book Gallery (2014)
Rena I. Steinzor
We set out to compile a list of rules and policies that could be implemented by state and local governments ...
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Unpublished Paper
Falling Behind: Processing and Enforcing Permits for Animal Agriculture Operations ...
Faculty Scholarship (2013)
Rena I. Steinzor and Anne Havemann
After decades of failed interstate agreements, the Chesapeake Bay is choking on too many nutrients. The estuary’s last, best chance ...
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Article
Collaborating to Nowhere: The Imperative of Government Accountability for Restoring ...
Faculty Scholarship (2013)
Rena I. Steinzor and Shana Jones
This Article opens with an analysis of why the Chesapeake Bay Program will repeat its past failures unless a reliable ...
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Unpublished Paper
Agricultural Secrecy: Going Dark Down on the Farm: How Legalized ...
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Rena I. Steinzor and Yee Huang
This briefing paper examines the agricultural secrecy granted by section 1619 of the 2008 Farm Bill, its implications for transparency ...
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Unpublished Paper
Fairness in the Bay: Environmental Justice and Nutrient Trading
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Rena I. Steinzor, Robert R.M. Verchick, Nicholas W. Vidargas and Yee Huang
Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and other states in the Chesapeake Bay region, with support from the Environmental Protection Agency, are working ...
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Unpublished Paper
Manure in the Bay: A Report on Industrial Animal Agriculture ...
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Rena I. Steinzor and Yee Huang
This report provides a substantive and detailed look at the concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) and other animal feeding operations ...
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Unpublished Paper
Water Quality Trading in the Chesapeake Bay
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Rena I. Steinzor, Nicholas W. Vidargas, Shana Campbell Jones and Yee Huang
In May 2009, President Obama issued an Executive Order on Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration, declaring the Bay a national ...
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Article
Evaluating Rules and How We Measure Their Effects
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Rena I. Steinzor and Michael Patoka
The Center for Progressive Reform undertook an empirical study of the Office of Information of Regulatory Affairs, the White House ...
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Article
The Case for Abolishing Centralized White House Regulatory Review
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Rena I. Steinzor
A series of catastrophic regulatory failures have focused attention on theweakened condition of regulatory agencies assigned to protect public health, ...
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Article
The End Game of Deregulation: Myopic Risk Management and the ...
Faculty Scholarship (2012)
Thomas O. McGarity and Rena I. Steinzor
On December 22, 2008, the contents of an enormous impoundment containing coal-ash slurry from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston ...
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Unpublished Paper
Back to Basics: An Agenda for the Maryland General Assembly ...
Faculty Scholarship (2011)
Rena I. Steinzor and Lee Huang
Maryland has a long-held reputation as a regional and national leader in environmental protection. But in some areas, especially enforcement, ...
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Popular Press
EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind ...
Congressional Testimony (2011)
Rena I. Steinzor
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Unpublished Paper
Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate ...
Faculty Scholarship (2011)
Thomas McGarity, Rena I. Steinzor, Matthew Shudtz and Lena Pons
For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a threat to human health. Although ...
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Popular Press
Hearing on The American Energy Initiative Transparency in Regulatory Analysis ...
Congressional Testimony (2011)
Rena I. Steinzor
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Testimony of Rena Steinzor…before the U.S. House of ...
Congressional Testimony (2011)
Rena I. Steinzor
Environmental regulations have saved millions of lives, preventing chronic respiratory illness and heart attacks in cities across the country. These ...
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Article
Lessons from the North Sea: Should "Safety Cases" Come to ...
Faculty Scholarship (2011)
Rena I. Steinzor
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer has triggered an intense search for more ...
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Article
Too Big to Obey: Why BP Should Be Debarred
Faculty Scholarship (2011)
Rena I. Steinzor
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Unpublished Paper
From Ship to Shore: Reforming the National Contingency Plan to ...
Faculty Scholarship (2010)
Rebecca Bratspies, Alyson Flournoy, Thomas McGarity, Sidney A. Shapiro, et al.
Eleven workers died on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform exploded beneath them. Since then, tens ...
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Unpublished Paper
Corrective Lenses for IRIS: Additional Reforms to Improve EPA's ...
Faculty Scholarship (2010)
Rena I. Steinzor, Wendy E. Wagner, Lena Pons and Matthew Shudtz
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is the most important toxicological database in the world. Not ...
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Unpublished Paper
Regulatory Blowout: How Regulatory Failures Made the BP Disaster Possible ...
Faculty Scholarship (2010)
Alyson Flournoy, William Andreen, Rebecca Bratspies, Holly Doremus, et al.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is destined to take its place as one of the greatest ...
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Unpublished Paper
Workers at Risk: Regulatory Dysfunction at OSHA
Faculty Scholarship (2010)
Thomas McGarity, Rena I. Steinzor, Sidney A. Shapiro and Matthew Shudtz
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was born with a heavy load to bear – the obligation of ensuring that ...
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Contribution to Book
The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future
Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future (2010)
Rena I. Steinzor
Health and safety laws have always been justified as manifestations of congressional authority to regulate and protect the free flow ...
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