That's why the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals applied "intermediate scrutiny"--the same level that applies to distinctions between the sexes--in its equal-protection analysis when it decided Windsor v.
The Homeland Security spokeswoman, Michelle Petrovich, declined to say what qualifications or background Gill has for his senior position in the department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection division.
Reportedly, his association also helped someone affiliated with such a group to gain a political appointment to an exceedingly sensitive post: "policy director" of the Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection division.
Elsewhere, where private security is allowed, companies such as Control Risks and G4S provide physical protection for oil and gas facilities as well as risk analysis.
The Environmental Protection Agency calls radon "extremely toxic, " and the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in 1998 listed it as the most frequent cause of premature death from a hazard in the home.
Regulations are developed and written in areas where a careful cost and benefit analysis reveals that regulations are justified and necessary to ensure an adequate level of protection to people, property and the environment.