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Description:: Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit sent the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) back to the Environmental Protection Agency for revision. The court found that the rule, which would limit emissions from power plants in Texas and Eastern states, was unconstitutional because...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: A new Government Accountability Office report finds that federal agencies did not go through notice-and-comment rulemaking for over one-third of the major rules issued between 2003 and 2010. This means that a significant percentage of new regulations expected to have an impact of $100 million or...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The scope and reach of regulation is growing, and along with it, public concern that there may be too much regulation of private activity. (See annual Gallup poll showing that more respondents are concerned about too much regulation than too little.) In response to this concern, President...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: A new issue paper from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), released Monday, finds that while the “precautionary principle” (PP) “has superficial appeal on initial impression, …when put to the test [it] actually lacks the substance and content necessary to guide realistic...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The Advisory Committee on Transparency (a project of the Sunlight Foundation that advises the Congressional Transparency Caucus) will hold a panel discussion on August 20th on the role of OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In particular, panelists (including me) are asked to...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Should government regulators think through the likely effects of proposed regulations to see whether they’ll do more good than harm? Every president for over 30 years has thought so, and required executive branch agencies to analyze regulatory impacts before imposing new requirements, and to...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Each year we examine the Budget of the United States Government to identify the resources and personnel devoted to developing and enforcing federal regulations that affect private behavior. This year’s report, Growth in Regulators’ Budget Slowed by Fiscal Stalemate, presents annual budget...
Author:: Warren, Melinda and Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The role of regulation in the economy is getting a lot of attention this election year, with warnings of a regulatory tsunami if President Obama is reelected or deregulation if Governor Romney wins. Government data on regulatory trends can help cut through the rhetoric and offer interesting...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The House Committee on Energy and Commerce last week issued the first in a series of white papers examining the renewable fuel standard (RFS) that was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and greatly expanded under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This bipartisan review is...
Author:: Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Regulatory agencies’ budgets grew faster than inflation in 2012 and 2013, despite concerns about the sequester, and would continue to grow under President Obama’s proposed budget for 2014. Financial regulatory agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial...
Author:: Warren, Melinda and Dudley, Susan
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

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