Center for Progressive Reform

Center for Progressive Reform

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revenue = $272,435 (2005)
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Non-profit_slogan = CPR supports regulatory action to protect health, safety, and the environment, and rejects the conservative view that government's only function is to increase the economic efficiency of private markets.
homepage = [http://www.progressivereform.org progressivereform.org]
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The Center for Progressive Reform (originally the Center for Progressive Regulation) is an academic think tank which relies primarily on the research contributions of its "Member Scholars," professional university-based academics. The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to protecting health, safety, and the environment through analysis and commentary.

The Center for Progressive Reform's network of scholars are based in institutions of higher learning across the nation, and are active on issues related to health, safety and the environment. These university-affiliated academics seek to inform policy debates, critique anti-regulatory research, enhance public understanding of the issues, and open the regulatory process to public scrutiny.

CPR's MISSION

The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) believes sensible safeguards in health, safety and the environment serve important shared values, including doing the best we can to prevent harm to people and the environment, distributing environmental harms and benefits fairly, and protecting the earth for future generations. CPR rejects the view that the economic efficiency of private markets should be the only value used to guide government action. Rather, CPR supports thoughtful government action and reform to advance the well-being of human life and the environment. Additionally, CPR believes people play a crucial role in ensuring both private and public sector decisions that result in improved protection of consumers, public health and safety, and the environment. Accordingly, CPR supports ready public access to the courts, enhanced public participation, and improved public access to information.

CPR's Issue Groups & Reports

• Clean Science

** [http://www.progressiveregulation.org/perspectives/dataQuality.cfm Data Quality]

** [http://www.progressivereform.org/perspectives/science.cfm Science]

** [http://www.progressivereform.org/articles/Secrecy_703.pdf Sequestered Science and Public Health]

** Read a [http://www.progressivereform.org/articles/Rescuing_Science_604.pdf Summary] of the book "Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research" available at [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521540097/sr=8-1/qid=1155297269/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1127895-4589504?ie=UTF8 Amazon.com] and [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521540097 Cambridge University Press]

** [http://www.progressivereform.org/articles/Disclosure_Regulatory_Science.pdf Proposal from CPR's Wagner in Science Magazine]

• Environment

** Emissions Trading;
** Ozone Pollution Report;
** Environmental Justice;
** Superfund Neglect;
** CPR on Katrina;
** Closing Data Gaps;
** Squandering Public Resources

• Liability & Accountability

** Truth & Torts: Preemption;
** Truth & Torts: Lawyers, Guns, Money;
** Truth & Torts: Medical Insurance; How the Hollowed-out FDA Contributed to the Vioxx Fiasco


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