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cbabe

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Sun Jul 28, 2024, 11:49 AM Jul 2024

The real death panels: US supreme court rulings will affect response to threats like bird flu - experts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/28/us-supreme-court-chevron-decision-bird-flu

US supreme court rulings will affect response to threats like bird flu – experts

Rulings including Chevron decision will have ripple effects for enforcing and creating regulations

Melody Schreiber
Sun 28 Jul 2024 11.00 EDT

Four recent decisions from the US supreme court have unleashed the greatest changes to the American regulatory state in decades and will probably affect responses to emerging threats like the bird flu outbreak currently spreading in the country, experts say.

The decisions will have ripple effects for enforcing and creating regulations, including complicated technical and scientific rules, and they could open up agencies to increased legal challenges.



The rulings may create a “chilling” effect for regulations beyond the scope of the individual decisions, said Josh Michaud, an associate director for global health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy organization.

These rules seem likely to affect the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and drugs, improvements for clean water and air, reduced carbon emissions, consumer safety, and the control of infectious diseases, Gostin said.

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The real death panels: US supreme court rulings will affect response to threats like bird flu - experts (Original Post) cbabe Jul 2024 OP
A Trump FDA and CDC will kill millions. Turbineguy Jul 2024 #1
Imagine a Fortune 500 company... Girard442 Jul 2024 #2
Yes it is, then drown the ashes in the bathtub. Clouds Passing Jul 2024 #3

Girard442

(6,887 posts)
2. Imagine a Fortune 500 company...
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 12:09 PM
Jul 2024

...where employees are encouraged to appeal every manager's decision to the CEO and work by the manager's subordinates stops until the CEO renders his own decision. How could that possibly work?

That's really the goal, isn't it? To break the government beyond repair.

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