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10 Nov 2011, 12:00 am by Aulden Burcher
Is China getting its local government debt problem under control? [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 12:00 am by Sebastian Rowland
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its schedule to develop regulations for the disposal of wasterwater from hydraulic fracturing – known as fracking, for short. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 12:00 am by Elisa Solomon
Would the risk of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which released approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last year, have been reduced if the agency responsible for enforcing offshore oil and gas regulations, Minerals Management Service (MMS), not also collected oil and gas revenues from the same companies it oversaw as a regulator? [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 12:00 am by R. Daniel Kelemen
 The process of European integration is transforming traditional patterns of law and regulation across the European Union (EU). [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 12:00 am by Vanessa Kurzweil
A report released by the White House National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) concludes that federal agencies should play a supporting role in the development of technical standards but acknowledges that there are “limited circumstances” where agencies should take a leadership role. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 12:00 am by Admas Habteslasie
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) made news recently when it secured the first conviction under United Kingdom’s new Bribery Act adopted in 2010. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 7:15 am by Benjamin Tannen
In a move that will ensure it continues to play a role in future electricity transmission siting decisions, the U.S. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Peter L. Strauss
The reigning administrative law mystery of the last third of a century, Chevron “deference,” has never seemed especially mysterious, controversial or difficult to me. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 11:59 pm by Nicole Greenstein
Professor Christopher Yoo On Monday, October 24, three of the nation’s leading experts on telecommunications law and competition policy convened in the Faculty Lounge to celebrate Christopher S. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Jonathan Mincer
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week, members of Congress asked whether federal regulations need greater scrutiny.Several witnesses testified that they do. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by RegBlog
In the aftermath of WikiLeaks’ disclosure of confidential documents last year, the President has issued an executive order implementing new safeguards to protect classified government information from future leaks. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Jonathan Mincer
Accusing regulations of impeding “economic growth and job creation,” a bipartisan group of members of Congress have introduced a bill, in both the House and the Senate, to place procedural hurdles on agency rulemakings. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Stuart Shapiro
Those of us who support benefit-cost analysis (BCA) as a tool to improve regulatory decisions have long sought ways to give such analysis more heft in agency decision making. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Mima Mohammed
A federal judge held that the Endangered Species Act does not require the Department of Interior’s recent special rule on polar bears to address climate change, but still concluded that the rule needed to be set aside because the Department failed to conduct an environmental assessment of its decision. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Annie Chou
Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced a bill last week to override Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conflict-of-interest policies in an attempt to speed up the review of medical products. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 12:00 am by Chip Shaffer
With the support of nearly every Republican member of the House of Representative, along with about forty Democrats, the House passed a new bill last week that would create new guidelines for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in setting air pollution standards for industrial boilers, process heaters, and incinerators. [read post]