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Live-Tweeting from Issa Hearing on Regulation

We'll be live-tweeting today's hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  Follow @CPRBlog.

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Matthew Freeman | February 10, 2011

Live-Tweeting from Issa Hearing on Regulation

We’ll be live-tweeting today’s hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  Follow @CPRBlog.

Holly Doremus | February 9, 2011

Contempt? Not by Interior

Cross-posted from Legal Planet. Conservative media and bloggers are making much of a ruling last week by Judge Martin Feldman of the Eastern District of Louisiana that the Department of Interior was in contempt of his June 2010 order enjoining enforcement of the May moratorium on new deepwater exploratory drilling for oil. The Washington Times, […]

Sidney A. Shapiro | February 8, 2011

SBA’s Report on ‘Costs of Regulation’ Debunked

Having voted to repeal health care legislation, House Republicans have now taken aim at government regulations, describing efforts to protect people and the environment as “job-killing.”  This claim conveniently papers over the fact that it was the lack of regulation of Wall Street that tanked the economy and caused the current downturn.  But nonetheless, seeking […]

Celeste Monforton | February 8, 2011

With Friends Like These….. White House Throws OSHA Under the Bus

Cross-posted from The Pump Handle. I was already tired of President Obama repeating the Republican's rhetoric about big, bad regulations, how they stifle job creation, put an unnecessary burden on businesses, and make our economy less competitive. He did so last month in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and in his State of […]

Rena Steinzor | February 2, 2011

EPA’s Leisurely Timeline on Perchlorate Announcement Leaves Effort Vulnerable to Being Undercut

Today’s announcement by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson that EPA will move toward regulating perchlorate, reversing a decision by the George W. Bush Administration, is bittersweet. It’s great that EPA has recognized the need to regulate, but the agency has adopted such a leisurely timeline that the entire effort could end up being undercut. The agency […]

Yee Huang | February 1, 2011

Location, Location, Location: Assisted Migration May be Coming Closer to a Reality as a Response to Climate Change

a(broad) perspective While discussion of adapting to climate change is finally beginning to take off in the United States, other governments from Bangladesh to the Netherlands have already laid the foundation to develop concrete policies and implement strategies to address the impacts. Last week, a report released by the UK’s Environment Agency specifically identified relocation of […]

Dan Rohlf | January 28, 2011

The President Muffed it on Salmon

In his State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday night, President Obama suggested that reducing inefficient federal bureaucracy can help reduce federal spending and promote economic growth. Stretching to find a lighthearted example of government ineptness, the President quipped that “the Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they’re in fresh water, but […]

Rena Steinzor | January 26, 2011

The GOP Majority Weighs in on Regulatory Reform

On Capitol Hill this morning, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a hearing on what it describes as the “Views of the Administration on Regulatory Reform.” The star witness will be Cass Sunstein, head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, better known as the “regulatory […]

Ben Somberg | January 25, 2011

New CPR Report says State Plans for Chesapeake Bay Restoration Not Strong Enough to Get the Job Done

Momentum for Chesapeake Bay restoration has advanced significantly in the past two years, shaped by the combination of President Obama’s Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Executive Order and the EPA’s Bay-wide Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process. These federal initiatives, taken in partnership with the Bay states, required the Bay states and the District of […]