NIOSH Backers Focus On House Appropriators In Bid To Maintain Funding Level

NIOSH supporters are urging House appropriators to maintain funding for the research agency at the fiscal year 2012 level, pushing back against an Obama administration proposal to reduce spending on key NIOSH programs. But an industry attorney argues that in many instances the agency is undertaking activities that are not central to its core mission of providing science to support OSHA rulemaking.