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Senators: Put Politics Aside in Reforming America’s Regulatory System

While most of GW was quiet Thursday in the last days of spring break, two U.S. senators were addressing a crowd of more than 300 at the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis 8th Annual Conference at the University Student Center.

Pitching Retrospective Review as a Cure for Regulatory Accumulation

Retrospective review may be the best way to address this inevitable regulatory buildup, but the path to effective review of regulations has many obstacles.

Are Future Lives Worth More, Today, Than Our Own – Simply Because of Income Growth?

The charge questions that EPA has presented to the EEAC for consideration this week relate to the analytical foundations of a procedure for estimating the value of statistical lives saved in the future – possibly the distant future – as a result of regulations imposed today.