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Description:: This response to the Department of Energy’s request for information on reducing regulatory burdens does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to improve DOE rulemakings and enhance DOE’s retrospective review efforts. As DOE notes in its...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

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 George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center improves regulatory policy through research, education, and outreach. As part of its mission, the Center conducts careful and independent analyses to assess rulemaking proposals from the perspective of the public interest. This comment...
Author:: Pérez. Daniel R., Dudley, Susan E., Miller, Sofie E., and Mannix, Brian F.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: This comment on the Department of Energy’s (DOE or the Department) proposed rule establishing new energy efficiency standards for manufactured housing does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to evaluate the effect of DOE’s proposal on...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center improves regulatory policy through research, education, and outreach. As part of its mission, the Center conducts careful and independent analyses to assess rulemaking from the perspective of the public interest. This comment on the...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

Description:: This comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule establishing renewable fuel standards for 2017 and 2018 does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to evaluate the effect of EPA’s proposal on overall consumer welfare...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

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:: OMB’s 2015 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations (the Report) provides the public valuable information both on estimates of the effects of major executive branch regulations and also on OMB’s focus and priorities. It also offers valuable recommendations that we...
Author:: Dudley, Susan E., Miller, Sofie E., and Mannix, Brian F.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Administrative Law, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

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:: As a part of its Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing biofuel blending targets for 2014, 2015, and 2016. The RFS requires refiners to blend specific amounts of renewable fuels into transportation fuel, such as gasoline and diesel. The RFS...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Public Comments, Public Interest, Public Policy, Economic Analysis, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Administratie Law, and Regulation
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Report

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