There is minimal oversight regarding safety or the efficacy standard that India touts.
For years, top officials at the agency acknowledged that lawsuits could aid the agency's oversight of safety issues.
At the post-nuclear Hanford, the cleanup is tangled in legal battles over workers' health, dangers to the environment and disputes among government agencies about oversight of safety.
Several independent government reviews, going back several years, have found systemic problems with the way the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the federal agency in charge of pipeline oversight, enforces safety rules.
"There's been bipartisan interest in reform in the past, and I hope improving the oversight and safety around toxic chemicals will be a priority in this new Congress," Merkley said.
Science and technology policy researcher Alice Bell of the University of Sussex agrees about the important role the scientific establishment plays in providing oversight and safety.
"I wonder about things like oversight and safety," says physicist and science historian David Kaiser of MIT in relation to crowd funding.
Since then, officials from RusHydro, the operator of the plant, have called for better oversight and safety at hydroelectric plants.
As mobile learning continues to grow, school districts will see more regulation, oversight and safety mandates that, if not met, could result in restricted funding.
The Koch brothers' billions affords them access to establish or influence politicians, think tanks, family foundations and front groups to weaken oversight and safety laws.
