CPR White Papers and Reports CPR White Papers offer timely and thoughtful analysis on current policy issues, spanning the full range of environmental, health and safety issues. CPR Reports bring new data or information to the policy dialogue.
2010
The Future of Environmental Protection: The Case for a National Environmental Legacy Act Obama’s Regulators: A First-Year Report Card , (1 meg download), CPR White Paper #1001, by CPR Member Scholars Rena Steinzor and Amy Sinden, with Executive Director Shana Jones and Policy Analyst James Goodwin, grading the Obama Administration's progress on the regulatory front, including grades for each of the five "protector agencies," the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as for the White House, OMB, and OIRA. (Also a web article and news release .)
2009
"Fifty FDAs”: An Argument for Federal Preemption of State Tort Law that Is Less than Meets the Eye The Truth About Torts: Regulatory Preemption at the Federal Railroad Administration A Return to Common Sense: Protecting Health, Safety, and the Environment Through “Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis” Restoring the Trust: Water Resources & the Public Trust Doctrine: A Manual for Advocates Restoring the Trust: Water Resources & the Public Trust Doctrine: An Index of State Constitutional and Statutory Provisions and Cases on Water Resources & the Public Trust Doctrine The Hidden Human and Environmental Costs of Regulatory Delay (700kb download), CPR White Paper 907, by Catherine O’Neill, Amy Sinden, Rena Steinzor, James Goodwin, and Yee Huang.Regulatory Dysfunction: How Insufficient Resources, Outdated Laws, and Political Interference Cripple the "Protector Agencies" (1 meg download), CPR White Paper 906, by CPR Member Scholars Sidney Shapiro and Rena Steinzor, and CPR Policy Analyst Matthew Shudtz.Congress’s Authority to Correct the Courts’ Preemption Decisions The IRIS Information Roadblock: How Gaps in EPA’s Main Toxicological Database Weaken Environmental Protection (490 kb download), by Wendy Wagner, Rena Steinzor and Matthew Shudtz, CPR White Paper 904, June 2009 . Read the June 11, 2009 news release . Read the web article .Reauthorizing the Chesapeake Bay Program: Exchanging Promises for Results , by Rena Steinzor and Shana Campbell Jones, CPR White Paper 903, June 2009. Read the June 18, 2009 news release . The Truth About Torts: Rethinking Regulatory Preemption Reinvigorating Protection of Health, Safety, and the Environment: The Choices Facing Cass Sunstein news release (50 kb). Read the web article .
2008
Limiting Federal Agency Preemption: Recommendations for a New Federalism Executive Order 08, White Paper 809. An Accountability Mechanism for the Chesapeake Bay: Interview Findings The Truth About Torts: Regulatory Preemption at the Consumer Product Safety Commission , by CPR Member Scholars William Funk, Thomas McGarity, Nina Mendelson, Sidney Shapiro, David Vladeck, and Policy Analyst Matthew Shudtz, published December 2008, White Paper 807.Protecting Public Health and the Environment by the Stroke of a Presidential Pen: Seven Executive Orders for the President's First 100 Days Saving Science from Politics: Nine Essential Reforms of the Legal System , by CPR Member Scholars Rena Steinzor and Wendy Wagner, together with CPR Policy Analyst Matthew Shudtz, White Paper 805, July 2008.The Truth about Torts: Regulatory Preemption at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (1.2 meg download),by William Funk, Thomas McGarity, Nina Mendelson, Sidney Shapiro, David Vladeck, and Matthew Shudtz, White Paper 804, July 2008. Cooperative Federalism and Climate Change: Why Federal, State, and Local Governments Must Continue to Partner The Clean Water Act: A Blueprint for Reform CPR Policy Analyst Shana Campbell Jones, White Paper 802, published July 2008. Executive Summary of The Clean Water Act: A Blueprint for Reform (4.15 meg download),White Paper 802ES. Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids White Paper 801, May 2008, a summary of her book by the same name.
2007
Squandering Public Resources (671 kb download), by Alyson Flournoy, Margaret Clune Giblin and Matt Shudtz, White Paper 705, September 2007.The Truth about Torts: Using Agency Preemption to Undercut Consumer Health and Safety , by William Funk, Sidney Shapiro, David Vladeck and Karen Sokol, White Paper 704, September 2007. Sequestered Science: Secrets Threatening Public Health (273 kb download), by Rena Steinzor and Matthew Shudtz, White Paper 703, April 2007. Markets, Monocultures, and Malnutrition: Agricultural Trade Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens , by Carmen G. Gonzalez, White Paper 702, April 2007. CPR for the Environment (1.6 meg download), written with leadership from CPR board member Alyson Flournoy, and contributions from scholars William L. Andreen, Mary Jane Angelo, John S. Applegate, Victor B. Flatt, William Funk, Joel A. Mintz, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Sidney Shapiro, Rena Steinzor, Wendy E. Wagner and staff member Margaret Clune Giblin, Publication 701, April 2007. The first of two publications from CPR’s Next Generation Environmental Initiative.
2006
Paper Tigers and Killer Air: How Weak Enforcement Leaves Communities Vulnerable to Smog and Margaret Clune, published jointly by the Center for Progressive Reform and the Center for American Progress, November 2006. Read the news release (355 kb download). Man-Made Disaster: Texas’s Failure to Protect Its Citizens from the Perils of the Houston Petrochemical Complex and Karen Sokol, CPR White Paper #605, September 2006. The Executive Summary to Man-Made Disaster Informe Ejecutivo: Un desastre provocado por el hombre: Falta de Texas en Proteger a sus Ciudadanos Contra los Peligros del Complejo Petroquímico de Houston news release . Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research . A white paper summary of the August 2006 book of the same title, editor by Wagner and Steinzor and featuring chapter contributions from CPR Scholars and others -- David Adelman, John Applegate, Carl Cranor, Holly Doremus, Paul Fischer, Donald Hornstein, Sheldon Krimsky, Thomas McGarity, David Michaels, Sidney Shapiro, Katherine Squibb, and Vern Walker. The Truth about Torts: Lawyers, Guns, and Money Thomas O. McGarity , Douglas A. Kysar, and Karen Sokol, White Paper 603, July 2006. The Toll of Superfund Neglect: Toxic Waste Dumps & Communities at Risk and Margaret Clune, joint report by the Center for American Progress and CPR, June 15, 2006. (Read the news release Strategies for Closing the Chemical Data Gap (400 kb download), by John S. Applegate and Katherine Baer, White Paper 602, April 2006.Ossifying Ossification: Why the Information Quality Act Should Not Provide for Judicial Review and Margaret Clune, White Paper 601, February 2006.
2005
The Hidden Lesson of the Vioxx Fiasco: Reviving a Hollow FDA Rena Steinzor and Margaret Clune, White Paper 514, October 2005. Unnatural Disaster: Executive Summary , by Member Scholars of the Center for Progressive Reform, White Paper 513, September 2005. Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Doubting Daubert , by then-Member Scholar Lisa Heinzerling , White Paper 511, August 2005. Overcoming Environmental Data Gaps: Why What EPA Doesn't Know about Toxic Chemicals Can Hurt The Truth about Torts: An Insurance Crisis, Not a Lawsuit Crisis , Douglas A. Kysar, and Karen Sokol, White Paper 509, June 2005. Regulations in Name Only: How the Bush Administration's National Forest Planning Rule Frees the Forest Service from Mandatory Standards and Public Accountability (338 kb download), by Alyson Flournoy, Robert L. Glicksman and Margaret Clune, White Paper 508, June 2005. Is Cost-Benefit Analysis Neutral? An Analysis of the Bush Administration's Approach to Environmental, Health, and Safety Protection MTBE and the Need for Effective Tort Law , by Thomas McGarity, White Paper 506, March 2005. Environmental Justice , by Eileen Gauna, Catherine A. O'Neill, and Clifford Rechtschaffen. White Paper 505, March 2005. 'Grandfathered' Air Pollution Sources and Pollution Control: New Source Review Under the Clean Air Ac t Regulatory Underkill: The Bush Administration's Insidious Dismantling of Public Health and Environmental Protections , by William W. Buzbee, Robert L. Glicksman, Sidney A. Shapiro and Karen Sokol. White Paper 503, February 2005. Truth and Science Betrayed: The Case Against the Information Quality Act zor, Joanna Goger and Margaret Clune. Publication 502, March 2005. A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment , a project of the Center for Progressive Regulation. White Paper 501, January 2005.
2004
The Feasibility Principle by David Driesen, first in a series of papers outline alternatives to cost-benefit analysis. White Paper 407, December 2004. Regulatory Underkill: The Bush Administration's Insidious Dismantling of Public Health and Environmental Protections , by William Buzbee, Robert Glicksman, Sidney Shapiro, and Karen Sokol. White Paper 406, October 2004. Mercury, Risk, & Justice , by Catherine A. O'Neill. White Paper 405, October 2004. Enforcing the Clean Water Act in the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of the Public Spotligh Stealth Tort Reform: How the Bush Administration's Aggressive Use of the Preemption Doctrine Hurts Consumers Flimsy Firewalls: The Continuing Triumph of Efficiency over Safety in Regulating Mad Cow Disease Risks with Frank Ackerman. White Paper 402, July 2004. Executive summary of longer report .Applying Cost Benefit Analysis to Past Decisions , by Frank Ackerman, ( then-Member Scholar) Lisa Heinzerling , and Rachel Massey. White Paper 401, July 2004.
