Obama Announces New Executive Action to Prevent Economic Growth
If you thought the Keystone Pipeline permitting farce was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet. On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced new regulatory guidance which will inject the same…
Secret Deals for Special Interests: Sue-And-Settle and the Regulatory State
A federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is supposed to govern how regulations are developed and implemented. The APA requires providing notice to the public of the content…
The Federal Government Wants to Re-regulate the Railroads
The United States has the most developed and efficient freight railroad system in the world. In contrast to Europe, where the large majority of freight is moved by road, by…
If You Build the Blockchain, Regulators Will Come
The hardest part of drafting any new regulation is establishing a definition. In fact, most of the policy work is in the definition and there are alarmingly few policy considerations…
Big Labor Giveaway: The Federal Government Is Trying to Destroy Franchise Businesses
In August 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in a departure from decades of precedent, unilaterally redefined what it means to be an employer. In the administrative decision, Browning-Ferris…
The Ozone Bureaucracy Complex: EPA Regulations That Can’t Distinguish Between a National Park and City Harm the Poor Most
In October 2015, the EPA announced a new standard for ground-level ozone, tightening its stringent existing standard even more. It set the new standard at 70 parts per million (0.0070%…
The American People Need Protection from the CFPB
Did you know that there is an agency in Washington, DC able to wield the full power of the federal government, but whose director cannot be removed and is not…
The Legacy of Dodd-Frank: Maintaining “Too Big to Fail” and Destroying Community Banks
In 2010, Congress passed, and President Obama signed into law, a massive 2,300-page banking regulatory bill called the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The premise of Dodd-Frank…
CFPB Announces New Proposed Rule to Make Poor People’s Lives Harder
Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a proposed rule that would allow them to eliminate banking options for poor Americans. Did you miss that headline? Perhaps that’s because…
Regulations Work Overtime to Hurt Employees, Small Businesses
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced revisions to the proposed rules interpreting the Fair Labor Standard Act’s regulations on the overtime compensation pay of white-collar, salaried workers.