Thorne Auchter is the former Director of the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) from 1981 to 1984, during the early part of the Reagan Administration,[1][2][3] replacing former President Jimmy Carter's appointee Eula Bingham.[4] He is also the former director of the American lobbying group Federal Focus' Institute for Regulatory Policy.[5]
Historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have written that Auchter's appointment to head OSHA illustrates the Reagan Administration strategy for undermining New Deal programs by appointing key officials who opposed the stated mission of their agencies. Autchter's construction firm "had repeatedly been fined by OSHA in the past."[6]
In 1994, Auchter testified to OSHA's Public Meeting on Standards Planning Process on the safety of secondhand smoke.[3]
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- ^ "U.S. Department of Labor -- History -- 5. Thorne Auchter Administration, 1981-1984: "Oh, what a (regulatory) relief"". www.dol.gov. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Science". industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ a b Paul H. Rubin. "The FDA's Prescription for Consumer Ignorance". legacy.library.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Morris, Jim (7 July 2015). "How Politics Gutted Workplace Safety". Retrieved 6 March 2018 – via Slate.
- ^ Ong, Elisa K.; Glantz, Stanton A. (1 November 2001). "Constructing "Sound Science" and "Good Epidemiology": Tobacco, Lawyers, and Public Relations Firms". American Journal of Public Health. 91 (11): 1749–1757. doi:10.2105/ajph.91.11.1749. PMC 1446868. PMID 11684593.
- ^ Kruse, Kevin M.; Zelizer, Julian E. (2019). Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (First ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 120–121. ISBN 978-0-393-08866-3. OCLC 1037809174.
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