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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]
20 Mar 2013, 11:00 pm
Managing risks related to public health and safety while protecting the environment is now one of the principal functions that public opinion expects from the European Union. [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]
8 May 2011, 9:53 am
“Open government” is one of those bumper sticker phrases with which nearly everyone agrees. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 12:00 am
Nearly three decades since its seminal Chevron decision, the Supreme Court has yet to articulate clearly how that case’s doctrine of deference to agency statutory interpretations applies to one of the most important federalism issues of our time: regulatory preemption of state law. [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]
20 Oct 2013, 9:33 pm
Congress is currently considering more than a dozen regulatory reform bills that would modify the procedures by which executive branch agencies issue new regulations. [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 7:30 am
With over a week of shutdown behind us, the effects are clearly beginning to be felt in regulatory circles. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 1:25 pm
“They serve, they’re wounded, and they die right next to each other,” Secretary of Defense Leon E. [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm
Borrowers who faced foreclosure actions during the financial crisis are finally starting to see some long-awaited relief, although many may receive less compensation than they might have hoped for. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 9:29 pm
This December, the Obama Administration will again have to decide how much air quality is needed to protect public health and welfare. [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]
3 Jul 2010, 5:32 am
Since President Obama’s first announcement of his nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, many observers have noted that her confirmation would bring the number of women sitting on the nation’s highest Court to three, the most at any time in our nation’s history. [read post]
20 Jul 2013, 10:00 pm
People engage in all kinds of harmful acts. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 4:30 am
In an eagerly anticipated case for landowners and developers, an upcoming Supreme Court decision may impose new obstacles on government agencies seeking to deny land development permits. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 9:30 pm
The U.S. attorney in Manhattan recently announced the criminal indictment of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm
Cyberattacks can cause potentially massive costs, but the United States may not be adequately prepared to face them. [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 9:30 pm
In its landmark decision, Chevron U.S.A. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 9:30 pm
The recently published Unified Agenda of federal regulatory activity shows a total of 136 regulations that are “economically significant” – that is, those that will have an impact of $100 million or more. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 12:00 am
As many Americans celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday today with a traditional meal of turkey and trimmings, their federal Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to remind them that their turkeys have been “raised by the rules. [read post]
