The Washington Post editorializes this morning against a dubious sounding labor regulation proposed by the Office of Management and Budget. OMB would strip Occupation Safety and Health Administration scientists from their duties of assessing the risk of workplace. Instead, workplaces would only be monitored by the Dept. of Labor after the existence of a toxin there has been proven.

If you think this sounds like too late in the process, then you have a friend at the Washington Post. You don’t have any friends, however, at OMB, which has proposed a series of end of the administration regulations that do away with scientific assessment panels. The Bush administration’s battles with scientists live on.-MB

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