The Risks of Regulating in the Dark
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A Useful Measure of Regulatory Output
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently published its Exit Memo highlighting several aspects of the agency’s work under President Obama. The memo includes quantitative metrics of the administration’s regulatory output to draw comparisons with the numbers of regulations issued by agencies under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
As a Parting Gift, Obama Administration Releases Final Report on Regulation
OMB released its annual Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations, providing a window into regulatory activity in FY15.
Structured to Fail? Regulatory Performance under Competing Mandates
Carrigan's analysis demonstrates for policymakers and scholars why assigning competing non-regulatory missions to regulatory agencies can still be better than separating them in some cases.
President Obama’s Midnight Regulatory Agenda
This Unified Agenda outlines the regulatory actions that agencies are planning to undertake in the remaining months of the Obama administration.
EPA’s proposed rule sets state-by-state carbon intensity targets for the production of electricity. States are expected to adopt some form of economic incentive regulatory system to achieve these targets, but there has been a great deal of confusion about how, exactly, such a system should work.
NHTSA’s Federal Automated Vehicles Policy: Accelerating the Next Revolution In Roadway Safety
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Federal Automated Vehicles Policy establishes how the agency will address driverless car technology through its current regulatory framework and identifies new regulatory tools that could be used in the future.
Public Comment to the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
Regulation may have a larger impact on society than any other single federal policymaking process. Regulations protect public health, promote economic growth, and help preserve our environment. Various estimates of regulation’s impact on society vary from over $260 billion to over $2 trillion. By comparison, the total of all federal funding for research and development, for instance, is less than $160 billion a year.