For the Warren Court, and the liberals who embraced its decisions advancing the rights of criminal defendants, dismantling segregation, and protecting minorities, "judicial restraint" was hardly a gleaming principle.
The NRC report Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment made several recommendations to improve chemical risk assessment, with a focus on in-depth chronic dose response assessments conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Last week, The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Supreme Court's recent decisions advancing corporate interests.
Several of the participants in that endeavor served on the NRC committee that prepared the report, "Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment" (NRC, 2009).
He proposed differential standards of evidence for different actions, a recommendation echoed by the National Academy of Sciences a half-century later in Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment (NRC 2009).
The decisions advance the objectives of the organization's current strategic plan, which runs through 2013, and bolster its efforts to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
As stated in Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment (NRC 2009), the first step in a risk assessment should involve defining the scope of the assessment in the context of the decision that needs to be made.
A particularly important contribution in this area is provided by the broad review of chemical risk assessment practices at U.S. EPA that was conducted by the NRC and summarized in the report Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment (NRC 2009).
178 pp. ISBN: 978-0-309-13173-5, $41 Science Advancingions: Advancing Risk Assessment National Research Council, Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the U.S. EPA Washington, DC:National Academies Press, 2009.
(NRC 2012) The report was envisaged to potentially be a companion to two other recent NRC reports, Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy (NRC 2007) and Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment (NRC 2009).
