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• By: Ryan Young
• 07/17/2017

Regulatory agencies were plenty busy last week, with new rules in the last week ranging from Maine’s gas stations to hammerhead shark herd size.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/10/2017

81 new rules from the last week still range from work surfaces to spirulina extract.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/03/2017

A recent EPA rule for dental effluence caused some controversy for violating President Trump’s one-in, two-out policy for new rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/19/2017

New rules from the last week are as wide-ranging as ever, from dental effluence to reciprocating engines.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/05/2017

After a lengthy delay, several Obama-era rules are starting to come into effect, especially energy-use rules ranging from refrigerators to ceiling fans.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/15/2017

The number of new final regulations this year passed the one-thousand mark. While many of the new rules are delays or repeals of older rules,…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/08/2017

Another droll week on the regulatory front, with new rules ranging from UHF television to restaurant menus.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/01/2017

While most of the week’s new final regulations are either routine or procedural, they still range from rural phone calls to airplane batteries.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/24/2017

The Federal Register continues its slow march to the 20,000-page mark, but is still on pace for lowest page total since 1993.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/17/2017

The 2017 Federal Register had another sub-thousand page week, though it is still already more than 18,000 pages long.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/10/2017

Things remain slow on the regulatory front, with a large chunk of new rules being routine safety-zone and drawbridge scheduling regulations from the Coast Guard.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/03/2017

There were 63 final regulations and 28 proposed regulations last week, but again, few of them amounted to much. We’ll have more to say on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/27/2017

The Trump administration’s 60-day regulatory freeze is now over, but many of this week’s new regulations are simply extensions of previous delays. So despite a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/20/2017

Starting this week, many late-Obama administration regulations delayed by the Trump administration’s 60-day freeze will come into effect.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/13/2017

It was another slow week for new regulations, but busy times are on their way. A slew of delayed regulations will come into effect on…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/06/2017

As the regulatory freeze marches on, most new regulations coming out are garden-variety FAA airworthiness directives and Coast Guard drawbridge and safety zone rules.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/27/2017

43 new regulations last week, from toddler beds to potato proteins.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 02/13/2017

The White House regulatory freeze continues, and a wide range of recent rules, big and small, have been delayed until late March.

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/23/2017

The final pre-inauguration Federal Register was 1,464 pages long. A normal day’s edition is roughly 300 pages. Since there is a lag time of a…

Regulatory Reform

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/17/2017

In a mere nine working days, the 2017 Federal Register has nearly reached 5,000 pages; the midnight hour approaches.

Regulatory Reform