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Dave Jamieson

More Workers Killed On Job In 2010, Labor Group Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: White House, House of Representatives, Workers, Workplace Deaths, Safety, Office of Management and Budget, Afl-Cio, Regulation, Mine Safety, Worker Safety, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Death, Video, Workplace, Gop, Unions, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Thirteen U.S. workers were killed on the job each day and roughly 50,000 died from work-related diseases in 2010, a worrisome increase i...

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Dave Jamieson

Workers Fear Plan To Speed Up Chicken Processing Lines

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Chicken, Labor, Video, Usda Poultry Inspections, Workers, Labor Department, Tyson Foods, Poultry, Food Safety, Ufcw, Usda, Worker Safety, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- When he was working on a poultry processing line in northern Alabama last year, Jorge Polanco-Mercado watched new workers come and go al...

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OK White House, Now Give Consumers Some Quality Time to Talk Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Rosa DeLauro, Hhs, Cigna, Aetna, Cass Sunstein, Medical-Loss Ratio, Mlr, Politics News
Wendell Potter

The administration should pay far more attention to what they have to say than to executives and lobbyists for Aetna and the rest of the industry who, take it from me, are more interested in their own best interests than in their customers.

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Behind Closed Doors at the White House, Obama Administration Politicizes the Regulatory Process

Rena Steinzor | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Regulatory Policy, Oira, Regulation, Cass Sunstein, Politics News
Rena Steinzor

When former Harvard Law Professor and eclectic intellectual Cass Sunstein was named administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs ...

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Dan Froomkin

OBAMA'S BIG MISTAKE: Ambivalent Regulator Cass Sunstein

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Epa, Elections 2012, Obama, Oira, Omb, Osha, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Rulemaking, Dick Cheney, Regulations, 112th Congress, Coal Ash, Climate Change, Politics News

When President Barack Obama let it be known in January 2009 that he had selected Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to be his regulatory czar, it was...

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From Shared Sacrifice to Shared Prosperity

Michael Likosky | Posted 07.28.2011

Read More: Wall St Journal, Infrastructure, Tea Party, Regulatory Review, American Infrastructure Financing Authority, Public-Private-Partnerships, John Kerry, Mark Warner, McKinsey Global Institute, Lindsey Graham, Deficit, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Politics News
Michael Likosky

Today, we would rather bicker amongst ourselves than find ways of working together as a team to open up the economy, and rapidly grow our pie. As a result, we find ourselves embracing a no-jobs in our back yard philosophy.

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Dan Froomkin

WATCH: Administration Official's Announcement At AEI Gets Panned

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Video, 112th Congress, Regulation, Oira, Regulatory Review, Wall Street Journal, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein rolled out the results of the administration's four-month-long regulatory review Thursday morn...

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Key OSHA Safety Initiative Potentially Delayed Months by White House Nitpicking

Sidney Shapiro | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Oira, Workers, Osha, Worker Safety, Cass Sunstein, Business News
Sidney Shapiro

Last week, the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) approved a survey to be conducted as part of the agency's efforts to develop an Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) standard.

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Message To Facebook: I'm Taking Back My Happiness

Amy Gutman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Richard Thaler, Sherry Turkle, Behavioral Economics, Facebook, Cass Sunstein, Libby Copeland, Facebook Emotion Analysis, Facebook Depression, Relationships, Facebook Status Updates, Nudge, Facebook-Happiness, Facebook Status, Facebook Status Study, Happiness, Healthy Living News
Amy Gutman

Facebook: Good or bad? Is it nurturing our families and communities by bringing us closer together? Or is it a dangerous threat -- a technology that fosters isolation, anxiety and narcissism?

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Marcus Baram

Obama's Regulations Review Draws Mixed Responses

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office of Management and Budget, President Obama, Regulations Review, Obama Administration, Obama, Federal Regulatons Review, Obama Op Ed, Omb, Government Review, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Politics News

This story has been updated President Obama's government-wide review of federal regulations, announced in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal a...

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Coal Lobbyist Grinches Stole 2010, Obama Transparency Initiative Falters

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Office of Management and Budget, Epa, Coal Ash, Mercury Emissions, Pollution, TVA Disaster, K Street, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Coal Lobby, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Climate and energy legislation is dead, coal ash regulations are delayed indefinitely, mountaintop removal mining continues, and the myth of "clean coal" is alive and well thanks to continuing praise by Obama and Biden.

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Where Is Cass Sunstein When We Really Need Him?

Rick Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ucubed, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Jobs, White House, Unemployed, Cass Sunstein, Politics News
Rick Sloan

President Barack Obama needs to have a long conversation with Cass Sunstein about Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights, particularly his speech in Chicago on October 28, 1944.

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Sam Stein

No Summers Love-In: New Book Paints Unflattering Picture Of Summers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Reform, Epa, Wall Street Reform, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Paul Volcker, Cass Sunstein, Christina Romer, Obama White House, Economic Policy, Cfpb, Richard Wolffe, Banks, Timothy Geithner, Revival, Politics News

In a soon-to-be-released book about the inner workings and turmoil that dominated the Obama administration's first two years in office, one figure eme...

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Coal Lobbyists Wooed White House Staff to Influence Coal Ash Regulations Long Before Public Hearings

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oira, Obama White House, EPA Coal Ash Hearings, Coal Industry, Lobbyists, Office of Management and Budget, Coal Ash, TVA Coal Disaster, Campaign Promises, PolluterWatch.Org, DeSmog Blog, Cass Sunstein, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Between October 2009 and April 2010, coal industry representatives held at least 33 meetings with White House staff on the coal ash issue, almost three times as many meetings as environmentalists and university scientists were granted on the subject.

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A Year of Regulatory Disasters

Rena Steinzor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation, Jacob Lew, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Green News
Rena Steinzor

The pattern is clear for anyone who is looking. The systemic regulatory failures of the past year are signs of government and specifically federal agencies not able to accomplish their missions of protecting the public.

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Scrutinizing Inaction

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Tennessee Coal Ash, Office of Management and Budget, Environment, Jacob Lew, Regulation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Green News
Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore

With the announcement earlier this week that President Obama will nominate Jacob Lew to replace Peter Orszag at the Office of Management and Budget (O...

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EPA's Coal Ash Announcement Reflects Unfortunate White House Meddling in Rulemaking Process

Rena Steinzor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oira, Coal Ash, Environmental Justice, Coal, Cass Sunstein, Green News
Rena Steinzor

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was in a tough position on coal ash. She decided that such an important environmental justice issue should be at the forefront of the Obama Administration's agenda. But Jackson was also taking on Big Coal.

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Shriram Harid

John Paul Stevens Retiring: Top Picks To Be The Next Supreme Court Justice

HuffingtonPost.com | Shriram Harid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens, John Paul Stevens Retirement, Merrick Garland, Jennifer Granholm, Kathleen Sullivan, Diana Wood, Pamela Karlan, Amy Klobuchar, Slidepollajax, Pam Karlan, Cass Sunstein, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens Retiring, Justice Stevens Replacement, Politics News

In an interview in early March, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said he would make up his mind in about a month's time about when to retire fr...

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White House Meddles With Federal Agencies, Defying Obama's Own Order

Rena Steinzor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation, Oira, Peter Orszag, Cass Sunstein, Politics News
Rena Steinzor

Obama appointees Peter Orszag and Cass Sunstein, the director of OMB and Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, respectively, seem to be operating in defiance of an Executive Order by Obama.

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White House Sidelines the Public in Coal Ash Debate

Gary D. Bass, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health, Environment, Oira, Coal Ash, Omb, Government Transparency, Public Participation, Cass Sunstein, Advocacy, Green News
Gary D. Bass, Ph.D.

The ongoing controversy over coal ash is beginning to make the Obama administration look bad. The president came into office promising to curb the special deals given to moneyed interests. So where's the balance?

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WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein Hurls Slime At Elena Kagan

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Aaron Klein, Worldnetdaily, Aharon Barak, John Judis, Cass Sunstein, Elena Kagan, Media News
Terry Krepel

There are many ways to describe Aaron Klein's aggressive determination to smear Kagan with lies and distortions -- biased, unethical, agenda-driven -- but one word perhaps best sums it up: slimy.

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No Sunshine on Sunstein's Dark Spots

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Conspiracy Theories, New York Times, Academia, Barack Obama, Agents, Cass Sunstein, Politics News
Russ Baker

Don't worry, Cass Sunstein was just playing around with his dark idea of government agents going undercover to shape political discourse. Or was he?

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Laura Bassett

Even The Cows Have Cancer: EPA Weighs Tougher Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elisa Young, Epa, Ohio Citizen Action, Fly Ash, Ash Sunstein, Coal-Ash-Regulation, Coal Ash, Cass Sunstein, Toxic Coal Ash, Green News

Elisa Young says she has lost at least six neighbors to cancer in the last ten years. "I've lost neighbors to lung cancer who have never smoked," sh...

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Why "Talk" Culture will Destroy the World

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Keen, Internet, Copyright, Remix, Collaboration, Nicholas Carr, Web, Michiko Kakutani, Post-Modernism, Jaron Lanier, Media, Technology, Farhad-Manjoo, Cass Sunstein, Technology News
Hugh McGuire

In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani takes on the Internet, remix culture, post-modernism and the technology-induced Decline of Western Civilizatio...

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Cass Sunstein's Thought Police

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cass Sunstein Cognitive Infiltration, Cass Sunstein, Politics News
Arthur Goldwag

Cass Sunstein has come under fire for suggesting that it would be a good idea to deploy federal agents to "cognitively infiltrate" political groups that believe in conspiracy theories.

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