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- 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.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- The comment period closed yesterday on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rule requiring disclosure of the ratio of CEO pay to the median pay of all workers in the firm. In a public interest comment filed with the SEC, I argue there is little economic justification for this...
- Author:
- Korok, Ray
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
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- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Among the priorities highlighted in the introductory chapters of President Obama’s proposed 2014 Budget is a commitment to “a regulatory strategy that protects the safety and health of all Americans, while promoting continued economic growth and job creation.” The Budget claims that by carefully...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
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- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- The Internet and new media tools make two-way sharing of government information and public feedback not only possible, but also more convenient than previous paper methods. Public consultation is the solicitation of public participation in the form of public comments during the rulemaking...
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- Bankey, Erin
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- The Office of Management and Budget quietly released its draft 2013 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Regulations on Friday, April 19, covering regulatory activity through the end (September 30) of fiscal year 2012. Recall that, as the presidential election approached, the White...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
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- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- My chapter in a new book published this week, Does Regulation Kill Jobs?, explores some of the reasons why the human welfare metric, as it is typically calculated in a BCA, appears to be insensitive to the employment effects that loom so large in the perceptions of the public and its elected...
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- Mannix, Brian F.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- In a 2011 report, the Environmental Protection Agency projected that its retrospective review efforts would save $1.5 billion over five years, but are the American people getting what the Agency promised? A recent working paper by the GW Regulatory Studies Center suggests that the unprecedented...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Since President Obama issued Executive Order 13563, Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review in early 2011, some onlookers have wondered how and to what extent regulators will consider human dignity as a regulatory analysis input. The executive order stressed the role of both quantitative...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- In 1981, President Reagan’s Executive Order 12291 gave the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) responsibility for reviewing federal agencies’ regulations before their publication in the Federal Register. Three decades and four presidential administrations later, OIRA continues to...
- Author:
- Vesey, Kathryn
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
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- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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:
- Mannix, Brian F., Miller, Sofie E., and Dudley, Susan E.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- For an upcoming 3-day weekend, my 17-year old son and I won’t think twice about hopping on a flight to visit family in Massachusetts. When I was my son’s age, such an excursion would have been an unthinkable luxury; air travel was reserved for businessmen or the wealthy. Alfred Kahn, the person...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- On September 20th, the Environmental Protection Agency released a much-anticipated proposed rule that would limit the emissions of CO2 by new coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, or electric utility generating units (EGUs). This proposal is one of many regulatory actions being undertaken by...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- The 113th Congress is considering various bills to reform how regulations are developed, analyzed, and reviewed. The GW Regulatory Studies Center tracks and classifies these bills based on information provided by the Library of Congress. The legislation is selected if it concerns improvements to...
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- West, Cassidy B.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Each summer Washington DC is taken over by interns, the majority of whom are unpaid students looking to gain valuable experience on Capitol Hill, a Federal Agency, or one of the many nonprofits and businesses in the area. Some are willing to forgo payment for their work and often go into debt to...
- Author:
- Bankey, Erin
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Regulations are a powerful tool for achieving policy goals and the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Agenda) has for years served as the public’s first notice of the federal government’s planned regulatory activities. Rules issued by agencies such as the...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Soon after taking office, President Obama sent a memorandum to the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies requesting their recommendations on whether and how to change President Clinton’s Executive Order No. 12866 “Regulatory Planning and Review.” Clinton’s Executive Order established...
- Author:
- Mannix, Brian
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Environmental Protection Agency regulations are sometimes presented as economically efficient, correcting a market failure and maximizing net social benefits; other times they appear to subordinate that goal and instead pursue the single-minded objective of reduced pollution. And sometimes they...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- According to DOE’s proposed rule, furnace fans achieving these energy efficiency levels “are already commercially available for at least some, if not most, product classes covered by this proposal.” That is, in many cases, consumers already have the option to purchase a higher-cost,...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- The federal government issued its Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on December 20, 2010. Though likely unnoticed by most Americans busy with holiday preparations, these documents offer insights into the number and range of regulatory activities we...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Description:
- In a recent meeting, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reviewed legislation purported to improve oversight of regulatory agencies, a task delegated to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a little known—yet industrious—group within the Office of...
- Author:
- Drat, Collin
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- In a recent study (forthcoming in the journal Public Choice), Bentley Coffey, Bob Tollison, and I found a robust, positive correlation between the federal government’s regulatory activity and the performance of the capital’s National Football League team, the Washington Redskins. Why would any...
- Author:
- McLaughlin, Patrick A.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Until it ended last week, the government shutdown had a visible effect on the regulatory activities of federal agencies. Due to the appropriations lapse, many agencies discontinued work they did not deem necessary to protect human life and property, which meant that most regulations underway were...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform held hearings this week on the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA). Congress enacted UMRA to “curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Unfunded federal regulatory mandates on state, local, and tribal governments continue to present a fiscal challenge to those governments. Congress is considering several proposed amendments to the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, or UMRA, to hold federal agencies more accountable for the costs they...
- Author:
- Mannix, Brian F.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Many states have revolving door regulations that restrict the private sector employment of former public sector employees. These regulations are often applied to government workers responsible for regulating industries such as utilities. The purpose of these regulations is to prevent government...
- Author:
- Law, Marc T. and Sinclair, Tara M.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Should federal regulatory benefit-cost analysis (BCA) include benefits realized by residents of other nations? When it comes to valuing the effects of climate change, the federal government has recently decided that it should. A May 2013 technical update of an interagency working group...
- Author:
- Sutter, Dan
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Last week, President Obama nominated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chief Economist Howard Shelanski to be the next Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). If confirmed by the Senate, Shelanski would fill the...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Recent commentary on our Regulatory Studies Center Working Paper, “Regulation, Jobs, and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis” made the valid point that inclusion of a time trend in our estimates would improve the robustness of our model. Thus in this commentary, we update our preferred model...
- Author:
- Sinclair, Tara M. and Vesey, Kathryn H.
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- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Description:
- The benefits and costs of regulations, individually and in the aggregate, are notoriously hard to measure. In an attempt to measure the size and scope of regulation, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) each year submits to Congress an accounting statement and associated report providing...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E. and Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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
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- Regulatory policy should protect public health, safety and welfare while also not impeding innovation and competition in the private sector. The Obama Administration took a noteworthy step in this direction on Thursday, May 26, 2011, when it released the preliminary findings of a government-wide...
- Author:
- Vesey, Kathryn
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
- Resource Type:
- Commentary
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- Description:
- Federal agencies are increasingly turning to the Internet when conducting rulemaking. Regulations.gov, which originated as a central forum for agencies to post regulatory dockets and receive public comments, has offered expanding capabilities over its 10-year history. Nevertheless, according to a...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
- Resource Type:
- Commentary
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- Description:
- In January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a proposed rule, Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption, establishing minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce. Our examination of the...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E. and West, Cassidy B.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
- Resource Type:
- Commentary
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- The Obama Administration published a notice in the Federal Register today seeking comment on its approach to estimating the social cost of carbon (SCC) for use in regulatory impact analysis. The premise of the SCC, and public policies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, is that the...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Ed Clarke, who passed away last week, was the first EPA Desk Officer in OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs when it was created in 1981. From the beginning, the EPA desk was OIRA’s liveliest, always contending with the most controversial regulatory decisions. But Ed was a wise...
- Author:
- Mannix, Brian F.
- Keyword:
- Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Regulaliton, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- 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
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- Over the last thirty years, most legislative and executive branch efforts at regulatory reform havefocused on analyzing and improving new regulations, and agencies seldom look back to evaluate whether existing regulations are having their intended effects. Section 610 of the Regulatory...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
- Resource Type:
- Commentary
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- Executive Order 12866 outlines some fundamental tenets of U.S. regulatory policy, instructing regulatory agencies to identify the problems that they are attempting to solve through new rules and to promulgate rules that are cost-effective. These instructions are intended to make sure that rules...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Small businesses are key to getting our economy back on track, but they bear the brunt of the increasing cost of regulation. Legislators seem to recognize as much and have introduced several bills requiring a better understanding of the effects of regulation on small businesses. Just last week...
- Author:
- Sykes, Jay
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee held a hearing on “Reducing Unnecessary and Costly Red Tape through Smarter Regulations.” The bipartisan Committee is evenly divided among members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, with an equal number of...
- Author:
- Pino, Tatiana
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- There has been much heated debate in Washington lately over the effect that regulations have on the US economy. A recent Gallup survey found that “Small-business owners in the United States are most likely to say complying with government regulations (22%) is the most important problem facing...
- Author:
- Sinclair, Tara M. and Vesey, Kathryn H.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- What is the nature of congressional oversight of executive branch decision making? Do members of Congress oversee the work of federal agencies on a routine, ongoing basis? Or, alternatively, is congressional attention to the bureaucracy driven by disasters and other highprofile events? Arriving...
- Author:
- Balla, Steve
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- What can the American public expect from federal regulators in the coming year? The biannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, published last week, provides a first glimpse at upcoming regulations and, in a perfect world, offers citizens the chance to become involved in the...
- Author:
- Miller, Sofie
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
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- Commentary
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- Description:
- The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center has identified retrospective review of regulations, particularly those aimed at reducing health, safety, and environmental risk, as a key research priority. As President Obama observed, “during challenging economic times …it is...
- Author:
- Dudley, Susan E.
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
- Resource Type:
- Commentary
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- Description:
- Executive branch agencies are required by Executive Order and statute to measure the impact of regulations, using both ex ante and ex post analyses. Agencies conduct analyses that seek to quantify regulations’ costs and benefits, economic impact, and distributional effects, along with whether the...
- Author:
- West, Cassidy
- Keyword:
- Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
- GW Unit:
- Regulatory Studies Center
- Resource Type:
- Commentary