Reducing Regulatory Burdens – One Step Forward & Two Steps Back?
The President’s 2014 Budget commits to “reducing regulatory burdens” asserting that the President’s “historic Government-wide review, or ‘look back,’ of existing rules” has “produced over 500 reform...
View ArticleOMB Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Regulations issued in FY...
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...
View ArticleWhat is the Effect of Renewable Fuels Mandates?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is enthusiastically implementing the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which required it to issue standards mandating percentage of renewable fuel...
View ArticlePresident Obama Nominates New OIRA Administrator
President Obama nominated Howard Shelanski to be the next Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on April 25. If...
View ArticleJoint Economic Committee Hearing: “Reducing Unnecessary and Costly Red Tape...
Members of the Joint Economic Committee expressed bipartisan interest in regulatory reform at a hearing on June 26, 2013 titled “Reducing Unnecessary and Costly Red Tape through Smarter Regulations.”...
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2013 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions
The Administration released its Spring 2013 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on July 3, 2013. The biannual Agenda reports on the regulatory and deregulatory activities underway at...
View ArticleSequester does not appear to have constrained regulatory agency budgets
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, according to...
View ArticleToxic Sand? OSHA’s challenge in regulating crystalline silica
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,...
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