"It's not behavior that any public figure would engage in," he said, "but here we're talking about a prosecutor whose job it is to protect the safety of victims and enforce the law, not meddle and sabotage a prosecution of his friend".
That includes conducting environmental impact reviews, doing safety assessments and enforcing environmental laws, it said.
That means Congress must step in and give the federal government the much needed authority to create and enforce safety regulations for the nation's mushrooming public transit systems.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration was created almost 35 years ago, after deadly explosions at a Kentucky mine, with a mission to conduct more inspections of the nation's mines and enforce safety standards more strictly.
Within a month, a cadre of mostly European fashion chains, including H&M, Zara, C&A, Tesco and Primark, signed a legally binding agreement to help fund and enforce safety improvements in Bangladeshi factories.
The design process for buildings is highly organized and draws upon research establishments that study material properties and performance, code officials who adopt and enforce safety standards, and design professionals who determine user needs and design a building to meet those needs.
It has also hired more staff, established a new unit to set and enforce safety standards throughout the firm and beefed up the role of its American operations head to include overseeing safety.Similarly, BP is doing public penance for its failings in Alaska.
He announced that the administration intended to split the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling into two parts — one to award drilling leases and collect fees and royalties (worth $13 billion a year) and the other to inspect oil rigs and write and enforce safety regulations.
WASHINGTON — Citing an increase in the number of subway and light-rail crashes and resulting passenger injuries, the Obama administration will push for legislation that would allow the federal government to set and enforce safety standards on the nation's transit systems, officials said on Sunday.
FDA inspectors would be permitted to audit the program and enforce safety standards.
