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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/04/2018

Despite a four-day workweek, federal agencies still exceeded the previous week’s Federal Register page count by nearly a hundred pages, pushing the yearly total past…

Regulatory Reform

Cato Institute Honors Human Rights Work of Cuba’s ‘Ladies in White’

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Cato Institute Honors Human Rights Work of Cuba’s ‘Ladies in White’

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/01/2018

Congratulations are in order to our friends at the Cato Institute on their recent big event in New York, the Friedman Prize Dinner. Every two…

Free Speech

5 Advantages of Stepping away from the Paris Climate Treaty

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5 Advantages of Stepping away from the Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/01/2018

This week marks the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s announcement that the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, the…

Climate

Democratic Senators Criticize Labor Rulemaking on Joint Employment

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Democratic Senators Criticize Labor Rulemaking on Joint Employment

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/01/2018

A group of Democratic senators recently took issue with the National Labor Relations Board’s announcement it may initiate a notice and comment rulemaking to clarify…

Labor and Employment

Ship Has Sailed on U.S. Engagement with Paris Climate Treaty

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Ship Has Sailed on U.S. Engagement with Paris Climate Treaty

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/01/2018

My colleague Myron Ebell, in a nod to his collegiate years spent at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University, writes this month for…

Climate

Prop E Win in San Francisco Would Be Loss for Public Health

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Prop E Win in San Francisco Would Be Loss for Public Health

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 06/01/2018

“Big Tobacco” is pouring millions into a campaign to maintain their ability to keep selling harmful products that target children. At least, that’s the narrative…

Consumer Freedom

The Constitutional Cure for the Paris Agreement

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The Constitutional Cure for the Paris Agreement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/01/2018

Today marks the first anniversary of President Trump’s Rose Garden speech announcing his intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. That speech…

Climate

Looking Back on Trump’s Paris Decision: Why It Protected the Constitution and Rule of Law

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Looking Back on Trump’s Paris Decision: Why It Protected the Constitution and Rule of Law

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 05/31/2018

This week marks the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the all-pain-no-gain Paris climate treaty. In response to…

Climate

Congress Should Reform Antitrust Law with SMARTER Act

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Congress Should Reform Antitrust Law with SMARTER Act

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/31/2018

When an American company wishes to merge with or acquire another company, reaching an agreement that satisfies both firms’ owners and managers is not always…

Antitrust

Despite Trump Repudiation, Paris Climate Treaty Still Needs a Senate Vote

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Despite Trump Repudiation, Paris Climate Treaty Still Needs a Senate Vote

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/29/2018

This week will mark the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s speech announcing that the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement,…

Climate

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/29/2018

Agencies took it comparatively easy in the leadup to the long Memorial Day weekend, though the FAA and Coats Guard were busy with rules for…

Regulatory Reform

Finance Regulators Pave Way for Banks to Reenter Small-Dollar Loan Market

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Finance Regulators Pave Way for Banks to Reenter Small-Dollar Loan Market

  • By: Daniel Press
  • 05/25/2018

Under the letter of the law, banks can now reenter the small-dollar lending space. On Wednesday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)…

Banking and Finance

Will Coffee Give You Cancer (in California)?

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Will Coffee Give You Cancer (in California)?

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/25/2018

Our friends over at Reason TV have a new video asking the attention-grabbing headline “Will coffee give you cancer?” As it turns out, no (unless…

Chemical Risk

House Committee Examines Union Subsidy

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House Committee Examines Union Subsidy

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/24/2018

Today the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing entitled “Union Time on the People’s Dime: A Closer Look at Official Time.” The purpose…

Government Unions

On Honesty and ‘Honest Brokers’ in Government Science

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On Honesty and ‘Honest Brokers’ in Government Science

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/23/2018

Today’s E&E News has an interesting article about Richard Yamada, a Ph.D. mathematician who is the key official helping Administrator Scott Pruitt reshape science…

Climate

Debunking the Dilatory Objections to the AV START Act

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Debunking the Dilatory Objections to the AV START Act

  • By: Marc Scribner
  • 05/22/2018

In September 2017, the House of Representatives passed the SELF DRIVE Act by unanimous voice vote. The bill would for the first time establish…

Automobiles and Roads

Trump Maintains a One-In, Five-Out Pace for Rules and Regulations

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Trump Maintains a One-In, Five-Out Pace for Rules and Regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/22/2018

How many deregulatory actions have been taken so far in the Trump administration? Along with 16 congressional “resolutions of disapproval” of existing Obama-era regulations—another…

Regulatory Reform

Wishful Thinking Is No Way to Address Public Pension Shortfalls

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Wishful Thinking Is No Way to Address Public Pension Shortfalls

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 05/22/2018

More state revenue but less money for public services? That’s the situation in which states with large unfunded pension obligations can find themselves if they…

Labor and Employment

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reexamines Anti-Discrimination Enforcement

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reexamines Anti-Discrimination Enforcement

  • By: Daniel Press
  • 05/22/2018

This week President Trump signed a resolution of disapproval overturning one of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s most controversial regulatory actions—the inappropriate application of…

Banking and Finance

Supreme Court Ends Sports Betting Prohibition—Now What?

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Supreme Court Ends Sports Betting Prohibition—Now What?

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 05/21/2018

It’s hard to believe it was just last Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal law that, for 25 years, prevented the states…

Consumer Freedom

Congress Could Give Desperate Patients ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Medications

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Congress Could Give Desperate Patients ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Medications

  • By: Harper Lanier
  • 05/21/2018

The House of Representatives will soon vote on a companion bill to S. 204, the Right to Try Act. This bill would prevent the…

Health and Safety

Federal Deregulation Can Exceed What Gets Reported in Unified Agenda

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Federal Deregulation Can Exceed What Gets Reported in Unified Agenda

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/21/2018

In tracking the Trump administration’s regulatory vs. deregulatory actions, there can be discrepancy between the official Unified Agenda compilation (the tally that’s been around…

Regulatory Reform

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/21/2018

It was a relatively slow week, with 44 proposed regulations and 62 final regulations, though the Supreme Court did rule the federal ban on…

Regulatory Reform

UK Climate Campaigners Demand More Market Rigging

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UK Climate Campaigners Demand More Market Rigging

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/20/2018

Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom “are warning of a ‘dramatic and worrying collapse’ of clean energy investments in Great Britain in the last…

Climate

President Trump Replaces Obama Executive Order on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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President Trump Replaces Obama Executive Order on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • By: Myron Ebell
  • 05/19/2018

President Donald Trump on May 17th issued an executive order that replaces a March 19th, 2015 executive order by President Barack Obama requiring all federal departments…

Energy

Justice Department Brief Defends Oil Companies against California City Lawsuits

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Justice Department Brief Defends Oil Companies against California City Lawsuits

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/18/2018

The Department of Justice last week filed an amicus brief supporting oil companies’ motion to dismiss claims by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco that the firms…

Energy

Fraser Institute Confronts Changing Demographics of Entrepreneurship

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Fraser Institute Confronts Changing Demographics of Entrepreneurship

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 05/18/2018

As my colleague Christine Hall reported earlier this week, our Canadian think tank friends at the Fraser Institute have a new book out…

Regulatory Reform

Tell the Energy Department What You Think about Your Dishwasher

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Tell the Energy Department What You Think about Your Dishwasher

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 05/18/2018

Thirty-five years ago, dishwashers cleaned dishes in about an hour. Sadly today, due to federal regulations, there are no dishwashers that do so. This isn’t progress—it’s…

Consumer Freedom

Did You Hear the One about the Entrepreneur?

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Did You Hear the One about the Entrepreneur?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/18/2018

When putting together a chapter on entrepreneurship and regulation for the Fraser Institute’s new book “Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging…

Business and Government

Debating Employment Flexibility in the Gig Economy

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Debating Employment Flexibility in the Gig Economy

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/18/2018

Renowned labor expert and Harvard professor Benjamin Sachs argues over at OnLabor.org that he's had enough with what he calls the “flexibility trope” of worker classification…

Labor and Employment

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