The BP Oil Spill / Clean Water
In an LA Times op-ed, CPR's Holly Doremus and her UC-Berkeley colleague Eric Biber say that the Administration's proposed regulatory reforms in response to the BP oil spill fall short.

OIRA Overreaching? / Eye on OIRA
Is the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs asserting jurisdiction it doesn't have anymore, and ignoring deadlines? Several CPR Member Scholars put that question to the White House Counsel.

Runaway Toyotas / Food, Drug, Product Safety
CPR's Steinzor and Shapiro propose questions to House Committee investigating NHTSA's handling of Toyota.

MDE and the Chesapeake / Clean Water
The Maryland Department of the Environment's enforcement of the Clean Water Act comes in for stern criticism in a new report by CPR's Robert Glicksman and Yee Huang.

Farber on NewsHour / Disasters
CPR's Dan Farber was on the PBS NewsHour on June 14 discussing BP's liability for its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

CPRBlog
07/29 State Coal Ash Regulation at Work
07/28 The New Consumer Protection Agency and Bureaucratic Reality
07/27 EPA's New Guidance on Considering Environmental Justice in Rulemaking a Welcome First Step
07/27 Auto Safety Bill Takes Some Bruises in the Senate; Automakers Try for More
07/26 Using Disclosure as a Smokescreen: How Behavioral Economics Can Deflect Regulation

CPR Hot Topics

Truth About Torts: The Series
CPR White Papers explore the myths about tort reform, and the misuse of federal preemption. A recent entry in the series: Plausibility Pleading: Barring the Courthouse Door to Deserving Claimants.

Reg Report Card
In January 2010, CPR Member Scholars issued grades to the Obama Administration for its first-year performance on regulatory issues. See how your favorite protector agency fared, here.

OIRA and Reg Review
CPR Board Members call for overhaul of regulatory review process -- replacing cost-benefit analysis with "Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis" and refocusing OIRA's duties away from centralized regulatory review and toward helping agencies accomplish their statutory regulatory obligations. Read a summary of their letter to OMB; or read the letter. And read Rena Steinzor's testimony.

Kerry-Lieberman's Journey
Read CPR Member Scholars' blogging on the Senate's effort to pass climate change legislation. (Or catch up on CPRBlog entries on Waxman-Markey, the House bill that passed in June 2009.)

CPR Policy Perspective of the Week:

Changing Corporate Behavior in a Socially Responsible Direction.