Centralized Review Politicizes Protection of Public Health, Worker Safety, and the Environment
New report shows regulatory playing field tilting far to the right.
Hearing Raises Questions about Legality of Mining Office Consolidation
Criticisms leveled at Interior Secretary’s decision to move OSM into BLM.
EPA Funds Research on Black Carbon
Federal grants will support studies on a contributor to climate change.
EPA Provides Clean Water Guidance to Cities
Federal agency seeks to help municipalities manage water quality.
EPA Enters the Fracking Fray
Agency plans to study treatment of fracking water and propose regulatory standards.
Regulatory Failure and the Gulf Oil Disaster
A Penn Program on Regulation seminar examines agency design.
DOE Keeps Its Electricity Transmission Siting Authority
DOE decides not to give FERC transmission line siting power under the Federal Power Act.
House Gives EPA 15 More Months to Promulgate New Boiler Rules
Congress weighs economic, health considerations in regulation of air pollution from industrial boilers.
Inspector General Criticizes EPA’s Procedural Steps in Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
OIG criticizes aspects of the peer review process used by EPA to develop an internal report on climate change pollutants.
The Role of Ambiguity in Climate Change Policy
In a PPR Seminar, Geoffrey Heal discusses of the importance of analyzing uncertainty over climate change.
The Ozone Standard as Presidential Policy: Some Concerns
Obama’s short-term decision dangerously contradicts long-term legislative policy.