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. 

• 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, 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, by William Andreen, Robert Glicksman, Nina Mendelson, and Rena Steinzor and CPR Policy Analyst Shana Jones, White Paper 803, May 2008.
• The Clean Water Act: A Blueprint for Reform (4 meg file) by William Andreen and CPR Policy Analyst Shana Campbell Jones, White Paper 802, published July 2008.  Executive Summary of The Clean Water Act: A Blueprint for Reform, White Paper 802ES.
• Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids, by Rena Steinzor, White Paper 801, May 2008, a summary of her book by the same name.

2007

• Squandering Public Resources, 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, 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, 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, by Rena Steinzor and Margaret Clune, published jointly by the Center for Progressive Reform and the Center for American Progress, November 2006. Read the news release.
• Man-Made Disaster: Texas’s Failure to Protect Its Citizens from the Perils of the Houston Petrochemical Complex, by Thomas O. McGarity 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. The news release.
• Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research, by Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor. 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, by 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, by Rena Steinzor 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, 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, by by Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena Steinzor and Margaret Clune, White Paper 601, February 2006.

2005

• The Hidden Lesson of the Vioxx Fiasco: Reviving a Hollow FDA, by 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, by Member Scholars of the Center for Progressive Reform, White Paper 512, September 2005.
• Doubting Daubert, by Lisa Heinzerling, White Paper 511, August 2005.
• Overcoming Environmental Data Gaps: Why What EPA Doesn't Know about Toxic Chemicals Can Hurt, by Rena I. Steinzor, Katherine Baer, and Matt Shudtz, White Paper 510, August 2005.
• The Truth about Torts: An Insurance Crisis, Not a Lawsuit Crisis, by Thomas O. McGarity, 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, 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, by David M. Driesen, White Paper 507, June 2005.
• 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 Act, by Victor B. Flatt and Kim Diana Connolly. White Paper 504, March 2005.
• 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, by Thomas O. McGarity, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor, 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 Spotlight, by Clifford Rechtschaffen. White Paper 404, October 2004.
• Stealth Tort Reform: How the Bush Administration's Aggressive Use of the Preemption Doctrine Hurts Consumers, by Margaret H. Clune. White Paper 403, October 2004.
• Flimsy Firewalls: The Continuing Triumph of Efficiency over Safety in Regulating Mad Cow Disease Risks, by Thomas O. McGarity with Frank Ackerman. White Paper 402, July 2004. Executive summary of longer report.
• Applying Cost Benefit Analysis to Past Decisions, by Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling, and Rachel Massey. White Paper 401, July 2004.