18 Aug 2011
How Assessing and Managing Risk Are Different:
Professional football training
by Richard Belzer
in Regulatory Science
The Houston Texans are holding training camp in Houston, where it has been routinely very hot and humid. What the team is doing is making a clear distinction between the assessment of human health risk (in this case, from heatstroke and dehydration) and the management of these risks.
It's an interesting lesson showing why the conventional methods of human health risk assessment used by government are so flawed.
More...12 Aug 2011
Drinking Water Regulations and Conservation:
The latter makes the former more expensive
by Richard Belzer
in Regulatory Economics
A report in the Barnstable Patriot suggests that water conservation is raising the cost of drinking water in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
More...2 Aug 2011
Zero Tolerance Reycling:
$1,000 tickets for recyclables in the trash
by Richard Belzer
in Regulatory Economics, Regulatory Policy
Freeman Klopott of the Washington Examiner reports "[r]esidents and business owners in some of the District's wealthiest neighborhoods are outraged over tickets they've received for up to $1,000 by the city's trash police for having a recyclable item as small as a soda can mixed in with their trash."
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