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29 May 2013, 9:30 pm
A large number of banks that borrowed money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program(TARP) have used a federal small business fund to repay TARP loans and relieve themselves from TARP’s higher interest rates and restrictions, including limitations on executive pay and dividend payments, according to a recent government oversight report. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 8:30 am
Last week, the U.S. [read post]
17 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm
The abortion bill the Texas Senate passed last week, despite state senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster efforts, has garnered extensive attention in the media. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:30 pm
Fatal traffic accidents killed more than 32,000 people in the United States during 2011. [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
James Q. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 9:30 pm
Federal regulations in the United States encompass all aspects citizen’s lives. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 9:30 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have jointly announced final rules that will effectively double fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks to a fleet-wide average of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2025. [read post]
6 May 2013, 9:30 pm
Is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) accurately estimating how people will react to a nuclear power plant disaster? [read post]
