Since George W. Bush became president, OSHA has issued the fewest significant standards in its history, public health experts say.
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It has imposed only one major safety rule. The only significant health standard it issued was ordered by a federal court.
Wait. Could it be another fox guarding the henhouse moment? In this administration? What are the chances?
Mr. Foulke, the OSHA chief, has a history of opposing regulations produced by the agency he now leads. He has described himself as a "true Ronald Reagan Republican" who "firmly believes in limited government." Before coming to Washington last year, Mr. Foulke, a former Republican Party state chairman in South Carolina and top political fund-raiser, worked in Greenville, S.C., for a law firm that advises companies on how to avoid union organizing.
These excerpts are all from a story about workers getting sick from working in a plant that makes microwave popcorn. Apparently, the new "buttery flavor" is toxic. (To breathe, that is -- don't worry, keep eating! Mmmm. Diacetyl tastes gooooood!)
Never mind the Iraq war, global warming, terrorism, and the economy, I don't care who the next president is; it's gonna take him or her two terms of concentrated effort just to clean up our own government.
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And this, from the last page of the same article (emph. added):
… for the makers of diacetyl products — International Flavors and Fragrances and its subsidiary, Bush Boake Allen …
Naw, that's probably too paranoid.
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