Federal Permitting Under FAST-41: Timelines, Coordination, and Sequence of Permits
The environmental permitting process uses a coordinated framework that was enhanced under the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST-41) Act
Commentaries & Insights
Our Commentaries and Insights are short-form publications intended to distill long-form research and synthesize current policymaking activity into easily understood concepts.
Valuing the Benefits of Reducing Fine Particles
EPA’s new rule fails to reform the agency’s methods for calculating benefits when regulating particulate matter.
Update on VanDerStok “Deference”
The Court’s turn to super-deference in VanDerStok cannot be reconciled with its abandonment of the Chevron doctrine
Who Opposes the (Revised) Regulatory Accountability Act?
During the 115th Congress, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Regulatory Accountability Act
2025 Regulatory Year in Review
Our policy team looks back at nine important themes of regulatory actions from the previous year.
Exploring the Dynamics of Regulatory Adjudication
Examining the connections of federal agencies and the adjudicate challenges of self-regulatory organizations
Toward a New Multilateralism for AI: Insights from the IMF Annual Meetings 2025
Sessions at the IMF annual meeting considered the adoption of AI and regulatory capacity to guide responsible AI development
A Lack Of Coordination Threatens Environmental Policy
Without interagency and intergovernmental cooperation under NEPA, environmental outcomes will suffer.
AI Regulation and Federalism: What the Moratorium (That Wasn’t) Debate Revealed
Adopting a state-level moratorium against policies regulating artificial intelligence would help ensure consistency and prevent legal fragmentation
Trump's Spring 2025 Unified Agenda
Rulemaking highlights from the first Unified Agenda of the second Trump administration.