OSHA targets bridge painters

Article Abstract:

Manganas Painting Co. Inc. faces a $4 million fine for allegedly exposing its workers to lead while sandblasting the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge in Ohio. The company is found guilty of violating EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations. Manganas Painting Co. is caught in a changing regulatory environment and is in the middle of conflicting EPA and OSHA rules. The health hazards posed by the bridge's lead paint may have been aggravated by the containment enclosures required by the EPA.

Paints & Allied Products, Paint and Coating Manufacturing, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Occupational Safety & Health Adm, Paints and allied products, Cases, Coatings, Paints, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Paint industry, Manganas Painting Company Inc.

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Market masked regulation

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The government's emission allowance trading method allows environmental targets to be met at lower costs compared with command-and control regulation. The Clean Air Act of 1990 allowed emissions credits to be distributed to coal utilities firms in order to save costs. However, the Environmental Protection Agency's auction procedures, which decide which bids firms receive, have a distortionary effect on equilibrium prices due to the propensity of firms to give bids below their real abatement costs.

All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing, Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Air Pollution Control Programs, Sulfur Dioxide, Analysis, Environmental aspects, Air pollution control, Emissions credit trading, Emissions trading

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EPA: the enemy is us

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Observers criticize the Environmental Protection Agency's exemption from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) under pretense of functional equivalency. The functional equivalent doctrine presumes that any agency with the first word "environmental" in its name can be trusted to dispatch similar actions embodied in the NEPA. However, this holds true only for EPA which to some extent becomes an excuse too by the agency to escape from environmental impact statement responsibilities.

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