Government Oversight

Limited research on environmental influences on cancer; conflicting or inadequate exposure measurement, assessment, and classification; and ineffective regulation of environmental chemical and other hazardous exposures are key issues for reducing environmental cancer risk, according to the report from the Presidents Cancer Panel, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now published May 6, 2010. 

During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama made a number of pledges to "strengthen occupational safety and health" by increasing funding for OSHA inspections and training....