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CPR Media Materials Archive

Advisories and News Releases

• June 6, 2003. News release on Rena Steinzor's testimony to a subcommittee of the House Government Reform committee on proposals to elevate EPA to Cabinet status.
  
  
• May 20, 2003. News release on Sidney Shapiro and Rena Steinzor's letter to EPA's Christine Whitman and OMB's John Graham, urging that they reject pressure from an industry-backed group to misapply the Data Quality Act and censor comments from the NRDC.
  
  
• May 8, 2003. Lisa Heinzerling’s reaction statement to EPA Administrator Christine Whitman’s stated disavowal of "senior discounting" for cost-benefit analysis.
  
  
• April 23, 2003. News advisory about CPR Congressional Briefing, "Democracy Dies Behind Closed Doors: The Homeland Security Act and Government Secrecy Initiatives."
  
  
• March 10, 2003. News advisory about CPR Congressional Briefing, "OMB's Backdoor War on Regulation."
  
  
• January 13, 2002. Statement by CPR Board Member Rena Steinzor on Administration announcement of new EPA Water Quality Trading Guidance, and its effect on mercury pollution.

Editorial Memoranda and Reports

• March 10, 2003. Editorial memorandum on a provision in the FY 2004 Omnibus Appropriations bill, passed by Congress and signed into law, that will result in meat raised on chemicals and pesticides being falsely labeled "organic" in grocery stores.