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  1. The Affordable Care Act’s Effects on Existing Health Insurance

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    Description: During debate leading to passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Affordable Care Act” - ACA), President Obama stated: “we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan,...
    Author: King, Don
    Keyword: Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Regulation, Public policy, and Commentaries
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Commentary

  2. Draft Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact Concerning Investigational Use of Oxitec OX513A Mosquitoes

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    Description: 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...
    Author: Pérez, Daniel R.
    Keyword: Public Interest, Administrative Law, Regulatory Studies, Regulation, Public Policy, Regulatory Policy, Public Comments, and Economic Analysis
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Report

  3. 20 Years of Executive Order 12866

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    Description: Last week marked the 20th anniversary of Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review, which was signed by President Clinton on September 30, 1993 and published in the Federal Register on October 4, 1993. EO 12866 built on previous regulatory oversight executive orders in establishing...
    Author: Miller, Sofie E.
    Keyword: Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Regulation, Public policy, and Commentaries
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Commentary

  4. eRulemaking Challenges in the United States

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    Description: We define eRulemaking as the application of information technology to the process of developing regulations. It offers the potential to substantially transform the process and the use of regulatory information by improving internal government operations, enhancing transparency and public...
    Author: Otis, Rick
    Keyword: Working Paper, Technology, Regulatory Studies, Regulation, Public Policy, and Modernization
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Working Paper

  5. Toxic Sand? OSHA’s Challenge in Regulating Crystalline Silica

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    Description: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new proposed regulation to reduce workplace exposure to crystalline silica has been almost 40 years in the making. Also called silicon dioxide (or, more commonly, quartz), crystalline silica occurs abundantly in sand, soil, and rock. OSHA first...
    Author: Dudley, Susan E.
    Keyword: Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Regulation, Public policy, and Commentaries
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Commentary

  6. EPA’s Proposed Rule: Federal Plan Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Electric Utility Generating Units

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    Description: 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...
    Author: Mannix, Brian F.
    Keyword: Public Comments, Administrative Law, Economic Analysis, Regulation, Public Policy, Regulatory Policy, Public Interest, and Regulatory Studies
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Report

  7. EPA’s Retrospective Review of Regulations: Will it Reduce Manufacturing Burdens?

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    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: Working Paper, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Policy, Regulatory Studies, Regulation, Public Policy, and Regulatory Policy
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Working Paper

  8. Can Fiscal Budget Concepts Improve Regulation?

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    Description: Despite efforts to ensure that new regulations provide net benefits to citizens, the accumulation of regulations threatens economic growth and well-being. As a result, the U.S. legislature is exploring the possibility that applying fiscal budgeting concepts to regulation could bring more...
    Author: Dudley, Susan E.
    Keyword: Working Paper, Fiscal Budget, Regulatory Studies, Regulation, Public Policy, and Regulatory Policy
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Working Paper

  9. The APA at 65

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    Description: The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law held hearings Monday on the Administrative Procedure Act, which will turn 65 in June. The most striking aspect of the hearing was that all witnesses agreed on the need for amendments to the Act to align the...
    Author: Dudley, Susan E.
    Keyword: Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Regulation, Public policy, and Commentaries
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Commentary

  10. Sequester Does Not Appear to have Constrained Regulatory Agency Budgets

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    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: Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Regulation, Public policy, and Commentaries
    GW Unit: Regulatory Studies Center
    Resource Type: Commentary