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25 Mar 2012, 9:15 pm
As the race for the presidential election heats up, so does the debate over domestic energy policy. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
This week, the Supreme Court decided a case that was anxiously awaited by property rights mavens on one side and environmentalists on the other. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 7:31 am
EPA, in which the Court held that landowners may bring a civil action under the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge the EPA’s issuance of an administrative compliance order under Section 309 of the Clean Water Act requiring them to take certain actions with respect to their property, Sean Moloney of RegBlog provides general coverage of the opinion, Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post’s Right Turn Blog describes it as “a revealing decision — about the Obama… [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 10:00 pm
See related RegBlog post.The Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, directed agencies to weigh the cumulative effects of business rules in the U.S., and separately he defended the use of cost-benefit analysis for determining the value of regulations. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 10:00 pm
Under a unanimous decision issued Wednesday by the U.S. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Spotlighting the need to regulate the dissemination of potentially dangerous medical research, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) recently voiced national security concerns about the publication of avian flu studies. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently voted to approve a bill tackling the controversial issue of reforming the FCC’s administrative process. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Adapting to a changing climate may be the most realistic response to climate change, according to MIT economist Michael Greenstone, who spoke at a recent risk regulation seminar organized by the Penn Program on Regulation. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Governmental policies often have important distributional consequences. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 9:00 pm
See related RegBlog Post. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
At a time when policy makers seek to change individual behavior to solve a broad range of social problems, such as climate change, excessive drinking, obesity and crime, a promising new policy approach seems capable of escaping the typical reservations associated with regulatory action. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
President Obama’s requirement that religiously-affiliated employers provide insurance coverage for contraception has sparked a number of lawsuits.The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed its fourth suit challenging the Health and Human Services (HHS) rule. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
“Open government” used to carry a hard political edge: it referred to politically-sensitive disclosures of government information. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Retreating from a more hardline stance on political dissent, China has scrapped plans to legalize detention of political prisoners for up to six months in undisclosed locations. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
See related Regblog post.The White House launched a new web portal, Ethics.gov, a transparency website intended to fulfill a campaign promise of open and accountable government.The Department of Labor (DoL) issued a report showing that federal inspectors, supervisors and administrators failed to identify some of the specific safety problems that triggered the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Congress cast a very long shadow on federal regulatory agencies in March, 2001, when it exercised authority it had asserted in a 1996 law called the Congressional Review Act, or CRA for short. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
” Mark Mitchell is an Editor of RegBlog and a Master of Public Administration student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Policy makers must consider how environmental regulation affects markets. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 11:40 am
Jonathan Mincer is the founding editor-in-chief of RegBlog and a third-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
See related RegBlog post. [read post]
