Supreme Court Confronts Interstate Air Pollution Regulation
The Court hears oral arguments on legal challenge to EPA rule requiring states to keep pollution from affecting their neighbors.
Digitizing Environmental Protection
Proposed e-reporting rule aims to improve water quality, save money.
Dangerous Dust and Deadly Delay: OSHA’s Proposed Silica Rule
Cost-effective workplace safety rule would save 700 lives a year.
Regulatory Responses to Honeybee Deaths
Regulatory efforts to combat honeybee deaths focus on pesticides.
Adjusting the Social Cost of Carbon: A Commonsense Revision
Changes should be made to better reflect underlying scientific models.
EPA Upgrades its Energy Star Portfolio Manager
An upgraded online management system will better track buildings’ energy consumption.
Agencies May Differ from their Expert Scientific Panels
D.C. Circuit’s decision on ozone regulation has implications for science and policy in agencies.
The Regulatory Review Announces 2013-14 Editorial Board
Incoming Board plans to spread the reach of RegBlog’s mix of regulatory news, analysis, and opinion.
The Environmental Impacts of the Built World
EPA report suggests strategies for mitigating development’s environmental effects.
Debate over OIRA’s Virtues and Vices Continues
Cass Sunstein and Lisa Heinzerling debate what really happens in OIRA.
Using a Compliance Cost Cap to Constrain Regulation
Forthcoming paper proposes firm limits be set on costs of regulatory policy.
OMB Releases Draft of Annual Report on Regulation’s Impacts
Major rules, especially EPA’s, potentially create enormous net benefits.