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Description:: Since the formation of the U.S. federal regulatory system, regulations have had a significant influence on marketplace competition. Regulations often seek to improve competition by restraining monopolies; others tend to reduce competition by establishing one-size-fits-all standards for consumer...
Author:: Dudley, Susan E., Pérez, Daniel R., Miller, Sofie E., and Mannix, Brian F.
Keyword:: Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy , Politics, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act authorizes the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish energy efficiency standards for consumer appliances that are both technologically feasible and economically justified, while also resulting in a “significant conservation of energy.” To justify its...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Interest, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Public Policy , Regulation, Regulatory Studies, and Energy Efficiency
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: President-elect Trump has promised to “reform the entire regulatory code to ensure that we keep jobs and wealth in America.”To that end, scholars at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center offer a list of 10 reforms to regulatory processes that could be accomplished through...
Author:: Pérez, Daniel, Dudley, Susan E., Miller, Sofie E., Peacock, Marcus, and Mannix, Brian F.
Keyword:: Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Politics, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: On June 4, 2015, Susan E. Dudley appeared before a Roundtable Discussion of the Senate Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management and gave testimony on practical solutions for improving the federal regulatory process. During the discussion, members of the subcommittee mentioned the...
Author:: Arumugam, Saayee and Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Interest, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: Through a series of Executive Orders, President Obama has encouraged federal regulatory agencies to review existing regulations “that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned.”...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Interest, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended, grants the Department of Energy (DOE) broad authority to regulate the maximum energy intensiveness of everyday household appliances such as microwaves and dishwashers. As the pace of these energy efficiency regulations has...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Interest, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy , Regulatory Studies, Energy, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: Through a series of Executive Orders, President Obama has encouraged federal regulatory agencies to review existing regulations “that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned.”...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Environmental Protection Agency, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Environmental Policy, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Working Paper

Description:: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently published a proposed rule that would require hybrid and electric vehicles to make a minimum amount of sound while being operated at speeds slower than 18 miles per hour. Because they use an electric motor, hybrid and electric vehicles...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulatory policy, Regulatory studies, Public policy, Commentaries, Regulation, and Federal government
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: In September, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule setting energy efficiency standards for 49 different types of commercial refrigeration equipment, establishing maximum allowable energy usage standards as a function of either refrigerated volume or total display area for each...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulatory policy, Regulatory studies, Public policy, Commentaries, Federal government, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The Department of Energy (“DOE”) is seeking public comment on whether it was appropriate to rely on an estimate of the “social cost of carbon” (“SCC”) in a final rulemaking without undergoing public comment. When DOE published a proposed rule to set energy efficiency standards for microwave ovens...
Author:: Dudley, Susan E., Miller, Sofie E., and Mannix, Brian F.
Keyword:: Regulatory policy, Regulatory studies, Public policy, Commentaries, Federal government, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

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