Senate Confirms Two Bush Appointments To U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

摘要

The U.S. Senate has confirmed two appointees to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Dr. George M. Gray has been confirmed to serve as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development. He is the Executive Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, as well as Lecturer on Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Gray's primary research interests are risk characterization and risk communication, with a focus on food safety and agriculture and chemicals in the environment. He has published on both the scientific bases of human health risk assessment and its application to risk policy with a focus on risk/risk trade-offs in risk management.