With Mr Shore, he helped found the Labour common market safeguards committee, urging withdrawal from the EEC at Labour's 1980 Wembley conference.
In addition, the FSEIS failed to account for recent common sense safeguards to enhance the safety of crude by rail.
But sadly, corporate polluters and their allies in Congress -- like Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) -- are trying to roll back the EPA's common sense safeguards.
This should further contribute to a consensus that, if there are to be free trade pacts, and must be ISDS procedures included, that common sense safeguards against their abuse should be included.
Fresh off an election cycle during which fossil fuel interests spent more than $720 million to advance their candidates and agenda in the U.S. Congress, the new GOP majority has launched a broadside against the common sense safeguards we all depend on to protect our water, air, wildlife and lands.
Lacking disclosure rules, these corporate-funded groups provide anonymity for some of the wealthiest Americans and most well-known corporations as they spend millions to fight popular clean air laws, consumer protections against predatory lending, and a host of other common sense safeguards for consumers, workers and the environment.
Those who propose responsible limits, like background checks, would welcome constitutional support for common-sense safeguards.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to protect "common-sense safeguards" to the nation's environment.
Even as he called for a review of "unnecessary" regulations, he declared that he "will not hesitate to create or enforce common-sense safeguards to protect the American people," an apparent reference to the E.P.A.'s ambitious plans to limit carbon-dioxide emissions.
But I will not hesitate to create or enforce common-sense safeguards to protect the American people.
