EPA and risk

[Louis H Iselin <iselin@alpha.nuceng.ufl.edu>]

Louis H Iselin wrote:

> Nothing like favoring your science over everyone else's.

and

Russ <cmeyer@brc1.tdh.texas.gov> wrote:

> funding than health. Scare tactics have worked in the past.
> However, I would be interested in reviewing a copy of the
> proposed legislation, being curious and all.

tony tweedale <esact@selway.umt.edu> replied:

> you both fell off a cliff by assuming too much. browner's
> congressional testimony centered on the explicit section of the
> bill that risk assessments could be done by people employeed by
> the industry/company the regulation is to regulate. saw it on
> cspan, apart from having read about it, and this language of
> browner's was when she was talking about this requirement. 
> you radiation professionals are too comfortable in your own world
> [tho epa's press release shouldn't have ommited the relevant fact
> (..come to think of it, tho, i subscribe to epa-press listserv,
> and recall reading about the d.i.y. risk assmts in the press
> release--did it get edited when posted to radsafe?)]

The press release from EPA was copied from the epa-press
mailing list.  What RADSAFE saw was what EPA sent.  If EPA did
not mean what EPA said, then my original statement is indeed
true.  Nothing like listening only to what you want to hear.

Louis

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