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3 Nov 2013, 9:30 pm
With unemployment coming down only slowly from its Great Recession heights, political debate over the potential impact of regulations on job growth rages on in Washington, D.C.In an effort to infuse policy debate with the findings of social science research, the Penn Program on Regulation (PPR) held a workshop earlier this fall to examine the impacts of regulation on employment. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm
For many of the federal agencies that promulgate and enforce regulations to protect public health, safety, and the environment, the era of “big government” never even began. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 9:30 pm
At a recent House subcommittee hearing, arguments about how to balance economic growth with environmental health and safety focused on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” an innovative way to extract natural gas from underground shale.The hearing featured testimony from representatives from federal, state, and local officials as well as a university scientist. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 9:29 pm
Government agencies should review their rules regularly to ensure that those rules impose the lowest reasonable burden on Americans consistent with fulfilling the agency’s statutory objectives. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm
Although many people consider honeybees a nuisance when they interfere with summer picnics or threaten to inflict painful stings, the world’s food supply actually depends on honeybees. [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm
Are you are being over-charged on your monthly phone bill? [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 9:30 pm
Every year, 3000 Americans die from a food-borne illness. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 9:30 pm
The Democratic Party unveiled its 2012 platform earlier this week, defending President Obama’s record on reducing waste in government and weeding out unnecessary federal regulations. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 12:00 am
The process of European integration is transforming traditional patterns of law and regulation across the European Union (EU). [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm
When federal agencies impose regulations on businesses, who decides what those rules actually mean? [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 9:30 pm
A federal court recently approved the $22.5 million settlement reached three months ago between Google and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on charges that Google improperly tracked the user “cookies” on Apple’s Safari browser. [read post]
19 Nov 2012, 9:30 pm
Economic instability, social unrest, and diminished quality of life may loom in America’s future if regulators fail to better align our energy and water policies, according to a recent federal report. [read post]
25 Aug 2013, 9:31 pm
Since the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) first authorized agencies to make law through a process known as informal rulemaking in 1946, this process has become an essential part of modern government. [read post]
16 May 2012, 9:30 pm
Do penalties for pollution violations significantly impact pollution compliance in the private sector? [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 9:30 pm
Not long before announcing that he will be leaving the administration, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Cass Sunstein penned a memo to regulatory agencies urging “significant quantifiable reductions in paperwork burdens. [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 9:30 pm
Network industries have been national monopolies for decades, so introducing competition in these sectors has been anything but easy. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 10:30 pm
When the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a rule to improve the energy efficiency of microwave ovens earlier this year, it relied on benefits associated with reduced carbon pollution in justifying its new standards. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finally issued its hotly debated contraceptive mandate. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 9:30 pm
The International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce last week issued a preliminary ruling that wind turbine towers imported from China are subsidized and priced at an unfair level that hurts other competitors in the American market, adding to rising tension between the US and China over green technology trade. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 9:30 pm
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