This comment on the Food and Drug Administration’s draft environmental assessment and preliminary
finding of no significant impact concerning investigational use of Oxitec OX513A mosquitoes does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to...
The questions or whether to develop a “mass-based” or “rate-based” emissions trading program under that rule arise in the context of EPA’s EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan or Federal Implementation Plans, so we are re-filing the comment in the current docket for the Agency’s consideration. The...
This Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or “Bureau”) proposed rule would extend various consumer protections to prepaid account products. Protections for traditional bank account and credit products now exist through Regulation E, which governs electronic funds transfers, and Regulation...
The charge questions that EPA has presented to the EEAC for consideration this week
relate to the analytical foundations of a procedure for estimating the value of statistical lives
saved in the future – possibly the distant future – as a result of regulations imposed today.
Reductions in...
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...
This Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposal would allow small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to operate in the National Airspace System (NAS) pursuant to specific limitations and standards, which address small UAS operation, operator certification, and registration. Small UAS currently...
This comment on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Draft Regulatory Basis regarding financial qualifications for reactor licensing does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest, but is designed to evaluate the effect of the NRC’s proposal on overall consumer...
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...
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...
In response to a directive from President Obama,3
and using their respective statutory authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have jointly proposed a set of standards to regulate...
In the proposed rule, the DOL Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) asserts that since the Sex Discrimination Guidelines were first issued in 1970, there have been “historic changes to sex discrimination law, in both statutory and case law, and to contractor policies and...
The Clean Air Act directs the EPA Administrator to set “primary,” or health-based, NAAQS at levels that are “requisite to protect the public health … allowing an adequate margin of safety,” based on “air quality criteria [that] shall accurately reflect the latest scientific knowledge useful in...
This comment in response to President Obama’s Executive Order 13725 provides recommendations to the National Economic Council on how agencies can reduce regulatory barriers to competition and improve outcomes for American consumers. Since the formation of the U.S. federal regulatory system,...
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...
This comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed “Supplemental Finding that it is Appropriate and Necessary to Regulate Hazardous Air
Pollutants from Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units” does not represent the views of any particular affected party...
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...
This comment on the Department of Education’s (ED) proposed rule to amend the regulations
governing the Direct Loan Program does not represent the views of any particular affected party
or special interest, but is designed to evaluate the effect of ED’s proposal on overall consumer
welfare. As...
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 on...
The Center provides these comments regarding question numbers 1, 10, and 15-19 presented in the Supplementary Information section of the Commission on
Evidence-Based Policymaking’s (the Commission’s) Federal Register notice issued on
September 14, 2016. Regulation may have a larger impact on...
This comment on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s policy guidance on
driverless car technology does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special
interest, but is designed to evaluate the effect of NHTSA’s policy on overall societal welfare.The National...