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The study you sent me from <u>Risk Analysis</u> was funded through the [[Institute for Regulatory Policy]] (IRP) which, as you know has been the lead group trying to pressure the White House to release the Executive Order on risk assessment reform. </I></blockquote><font color=green>
: [Polluting industries were all lobbying to try to get 'risk analysis' legislated as an essential component of all environmental and health regulation. They controlled most of the consultants and academics who did risk assessment (they funded chairs at universities). [[Thorne Auchter]] who ran IRP, was a hidden partner in Carlo's HESG. They had produced papers promoting the value of risk-assessment (which depends on judgements rather than science)]</font><blockquote><i>According to Carlo, EPA was so concerned about the implications of the (IRP/Auchter/Carlo) study that he was called to a meeting at the agency to explain "what the hell I was up to." <br>Carlo is unwilling to speak out directly in support of ETS, his "handlers" <font color=green>(probably Dow Chemical at this time)</font> at the "primary funding organization" did little to publicize it when it was published in March. <br>Carlo was personally involved in a number of meetings at the White House on the Executive Order and he believes, as does Ward Hubbell (Ex.Dir of TIEQ/NEDA) that it was because it would have been perceived as a cave-in to industry at the expense of the public health. According to Carlo, [[C Boyden Gray|Boyden Gray]] "screamed" (his word not mine) at them at one meeting that they had blown the whole thing by the heavy-handed corporate lobbying tactics and that he couldn't afford to hand the Democrats one more issue to beat President Bush over he head with in an election year.</i></blockquote> <font color=green>
: [Ward Hubbell at that time had left the White House to work for TIEQ. <br>[[C Boyden Gray]] was President HW Bush's ''Counsel to the President" during his second term. He had been "Counsel to the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief'' during the Reagan Administration. Gray was also heir to a large part of the RJ Reynolds fortune, and he founded and he later ran the think-tanks [[Citizens for a Sound Economy]] and [[Citizens for a Sensible Environment]], both of which worked for the tobacco industry.</font> <br> Carlo was promoting the idea that the tobacco industry fund a new attempt at forcing risk-assessment on the EPA and other regulatory agencies by running a highly publicized series of reform symposiums to generate community support.<blockquote><I>He feels Harrison (EBH) has plenty of environmental umbrella groups through which the effort could be funded, and indeed suggests NEDA as a potential sponsor. Ward agrees and sees the new NEDA/RAP (Risk Assessment Project) as the proper vehicle.<br>I can't say whether or not the project is doable however, I think it has sufficient merit to carry the conversation forward. Think this thing over and let me know if there is anything you want me to do.</i>[http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/fscy0089]</blockquote>
