Protection of Children From Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks
Headline: Federal Agencies Must Address Children's Environmental Health Risks
What it does: Agencies must identify and assess risks that disproportionately affect children and ensure policies address those risks.
- Requires child-health evaluations for major federal rulemakings submitted to OMB.
- Establishes a Task Force to guide federal priorities and produce public reports.
- Promotes data sharing and an annual statistics report on children's well-being.
Summary
This order requires federal agencies to make protecting children from environmental health and safety risks a high priority. Agencies must identify and assess risks that disproportionately harm children and make sure their policies, programs, and standards address those risks.
The order also creates a federal Task Force and an interagency statistics forum to coordinate research, share data, and publish regular reports. It requires major rulemakings sent to OMB to include evaluations of effects on children and why chosen rules are preferable.
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