Strategy and analysis consulting
in regulation, risk, economics, and information quality

Consulting Services

Topics

Agencies & NGOs
Science & risk assessment
  • Cancer and non-cancer risk assessment
  • Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
  • Environmental Justice
  • 'Green Chemistry'
  • Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
  • Naphthalene
  • Ozone
  • Perchlorate
  • Scientific definitions for 'adverse effects'
  • Scientific peer review policies, procedures, and practices

  • California Environmental Protection Agency
  • National Research Council
  • National Toxicology Program
  • U.S. Office of Management and Budget
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Economics & benefit-cost analysis
  • Identification of market and government failure
  • Benefit-cost analysis
  • Contingent valuation methods for benefits estimation
  • Environmental Justice

  • Administrative Conference of the United States
  • California Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Office of Management and Budget
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Information quality
  • Governmeny-wide and agency-specific information quality guidelines development, implementation, and agency compliance
  • Quality standards for third-party information disseminated by federal agencies
  • Error correction petitions and appeals

  • Administrative Conference of the United States
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Office of Management and Budget
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Centralized regulatory review
  • Procedures and practices under Executive Orders 12,866 and 13,563
  • Government-wide standards for regulatory benefit-cost analysis
  • Agency compliance with minimum best practices and encouragement of best practices

  • Administrative Conference of the United States
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Office of Management and Budget
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Paperwork Reduction Act
  • Agency and OMB procedures and practices
  • Survey research methods
  • National Children's Study
  • Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
  • Patent application and processing
 
  • Administrative Conference of the United States
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health 
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Office of Management and Budget
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Risk management
  • The moral case for economic efficiency
  • The Precautionary Principle
  • Solid waste landfill siting
  • Superfund Records of Decision

  • State of Illinois
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

What is Neutral Source?

I founded Neutral Source in 2006 to provide an independent source of reliable information about subjects related to federal regulation. Neutral Source is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. All contributions are tax deductible.
Neutral Source
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Mt. Vernon, VA 22121

The Neutral Source blog publishes regularly, but not every day. 

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What Is Regulatory Checkbook?

I founded Regulatory Checkbook in 2001 to provide an independent source for government oversight, scientific peer review, and public interest scholarship about regulatory process matters. Regulatory Checkbook is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. All contributions are tax deductible.

Check out the website here.

Wine Economics

Q1: What is the most interesting field outside of government regulation for applying the principles and methods of economics?

A1: Baseball.

Q2: What is the second-most interesting field?

A2: Wine, of course. It is among the most unusual of products, for there are few objective attributes that distinguish a classic wine from plonk.

The supply side is intensely interesting, and in the United States it is subject to 50 different state regulatory regimes. (See the premise in Q1 above.)

As for the demand side, res ipsa loquitur.



Richard Burton Belzer
Richard Burton Belzer
2002 Ch. Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon
May 8, 2010