The War at Home
Document Type
Book Review
Department
English (Scripps)
Publication Date
5-29-1995
Disciplines
American Politics | Diseases | Environmental Health and Protection | Environmental Policy | Environmental Studies
Abstract
In this impressive new study, Robert Proctor calculates that the antiregulatory policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations may be costing some 50,000 cancer deaths a year, or 600,OOO deaths over twelve years. If, as OSHA administrators estimated during the Carter presidency, the agency’s proposed legislation would produce a 20 percent drop in cancer rates, then Ronald Reagan was a carcinogen, and a potent one at that.
Rights Information
© 1995 The Nation
Recommended Citation
Greene, Gayle. "The War at Home." Nation, vol. 260, no. 21, 29 May 1995, pp. 768-769.
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