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8 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm
At least 23,000 people die every year in the United States due to infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 10:42 am
This has been a busy week for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 9:30 pm
The United States and Europe have swapped regulatory philosophies, according to David Vogel, professor of business and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, who spoke at the University of Pennsylvania recently as part of the Penn Program on Regulation’s risk regulation seminar series. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 6:30 am
Countries should follow the North American lead in requiring cost-benefit analyses of new regulations. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 9:30 pm
The potential of the retrospective review of rules adopted by federal agencies has been hailed by both the right and the left as a way to improve regulation and increase efficiency: by collecting information on what works and what does not, we can make better choices in the future. [read post]
11 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Forty years ago, a far-sighted and creative Congress enacted one of the most transformative statutes in history: the Clean Water Act. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 6:00 am
Although regulations affect every aspect of our lives, they rarely reach the attention of voters (and consequently of elected officials) because, unlike their spending cousins, their effects are often not visible. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 3:30 pm
Nobody seems to have noticed, but the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) recently recommended abolition of review by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) based on cost-benefit analysis (CBA). [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 9:11 pm
Millions of Americans send money abroad every year—an estimated $51 billion in 2012 alone. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 8:36 pm
On February 1, 2010, Philadelphia became the most recent city to require calorie listings at chain restaurants. [read post]
19 May 2013, 9:30 pm
Congressional Republicans have attacked the Obama administration by accusing federal agencies of engaging in collusive litigation practices with public interest groups (pejoratively dubbed “sue-and-settle”). [read post]
13 Nov 2012, 9:30 pm
States across the country face an impending Friday deadline on whether they will take charge of implementing a major part of health care reform. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 9:30 pm
Regulation inhabits contested political terrain. [read post]
28 Jul 2013, 10:20 pm
For many of us, thinking about financial services regulation means thinking about the financial crisis and, more specifically, how best to prevent its recurrence. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm
Americans were once among the most educated people in the world. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 9:33 pm
For many in the financial world, the Volcker Rule seems to be an iron fist coming down on banks. [read post]
21 Oct 2012, 9:30 pm
Chain restaurants in New York City are required to post calories on their menu boards, a movement that is spreading nationwide. [read post]
2 May 2011, 6:00 am
The decision of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bring an insider trading action against Rajat Gupta, the former McKinsey managing director, in an administrative proceeding instead of in federal court is drawing questions from pundits – as well as apparently from Judge Jed S. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm
Commercial and industrial buildings are one of the largest consumers of energy in the United States – accounting for roughly fifty percent of the nation’s total energy consumption and imposing more than $400 billion in costs, according to the U.S. [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]
