[CPEO-BIF] Panel reviews Consumer Watchdog report on California's Toxics Department

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State Senate oversight office blasts "misleading" Consumer Watchdog  
report

By John Hrabe
Cal Newsroom
July 30, 2014


The shoe's on the other foot for Consumer Watchdog.

Routinely critical of state regulators for failing to protect  
consumers, the consumer advocacy group has been criticized by an  
independent oversight panel for presenting "incorrect" and  
"misleading" information to the public.

That's the conclusion of the State Senate's oversight office, which  
evaluated a 2013 Consumer Watchdog report titled, "Golden Wasteland:  
Regulating Toxics, or Toxic Regulations?" That Consumer Watchdog  
report criticized the state Department of Toxic Substances Control  
for jeopardizing public safety by "allowing serial polluters to cut  
deals with the department" and "levying wrist-slap penalties instead  
of applying maximum fines."

...

Led by former Sacramento Bee reporter John Hill, the Senate  
investigative unit conducted a line-by-line review of Golden  
Wasteland. They "found that the report was incorrect, misleading or  
lacking in context."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.calnewsroom.com/2014/07/30/state-senate-oversight-office- 
blasts-consumer-watchdog-for-misleading-report/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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