Ever since the Reagan administration, a powerful but obscure White House agency called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has reviewed the rules that agencies propose and used a biased assessment tool called cost-benefit analysis to weaken or abandon them. This “centralized regulatory review” process operates with little public oversight, under rules that favor corporate over public interests.
We are calling attention to the harms of centralized regulatory review and pressing to overhaul OIRA to protect the public and strengthen our system of governance. We’re also advocating for new approaches to regulatory analysis that center people and communities, meaningfully account for equity, and restore agency expertise as the foundation of regulatory decision-making.
Victor Flatt | September 21, 2026
Student-Centered Environmental Law — A Shout Out to Bratspies and Gonzalez’s Teaching Environmental Law in Context
Alejandro Camacho, Robert L. Glicksman | September 17, 2026
The Polluter-Pays Principle and Its Enemies: Corporate Fraud, Weaponizing Preemption, and the Survival of Climate Accountability
Alice Kaswan | September 16, 2026
Teaching Environmental Law in Context: The Role of State Climate Policy in the Context of Federal Retrenchment