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Regulatory Reforms to Enhance Competition: Recommendations for Implementing Executive Order 13725
Since the formation of the U.S. federal regulatory system, regulations have had a significant influence on marketplace competition. Regulations often seek to improve competition by restraining monopolies; others tend to reduce competition by establishing one-size-fits-all standards for consumer...
Dudley, Susan E., Pérez, Daniel R., Miller, Sofie E., and Mannix, Brian F.
Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy , Politics, and Regulation
Regulatory Studies Center
Whose Benefits Are They, Anyway? Examining the Benefits of Energy Efficiency Rules 2007 - 2014
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act authorizes the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish energy efficiency standards for consumer appliances that are both technologically feasible and economically justified, while also resulting in a "significant conservation of energy." To justify its...
Miller, Sofie E.
Public Interest, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Public Policy , Regulation, Regulatory Studies, and Energy Efficiency
Ten Regulatory Process Reforms President-Elect Trump Could Undertake
President-elect Trump has promised to "reform the entire regulatory code to ensure that we keep jobs and wealth in America."To that end, scholars at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center offer a list of 10 reforms to regulatory processes that could be accomplished through...
Pérez, Daniel, Dudley, Susan E., Miller, Sofie E., Peacock, Marcus, and Mannix, Brian F.
Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Politics, and Regulation
Notice & Comment: How Agencies Use Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking
On June 4, 2015, Susan E. Dudley appeared before a Roundtable Discussion of the Senate Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management and gave testimony on practical solutions for improving the federal regulatory process. During the discussion, members of the subcommittee mentioned the...
Arumugam, Saayee and Miller, Sofie E.
Public Interest, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Regulation
Learning from Experience: Retrospective Review of Regulations in 2014
Through a series of Executive Orders, President Obama has encouraged federal regulatory agencies to review existing regulations "that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned."...
Reforming the Energy Policy and Conservation Act: Learning from Experience on Energy Efficiency
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended, grants the Department of Energy (DOE) broad authority to regulate the maximum energy intensiveness of everyday household appliances such as microwaves and dishwashers. As the pace of these energy efficiency regulations has...
Public Interest, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy , Regulatory Studies, Energy, and Regulation
EPA's Retrospective Review of Regulations: Will it Reduce Manufacturing Burdens?
Environmental Protection Agency, Public Policy, Working Paper, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, Environmental Policy, and Regulation
Questionable Benefits: NHTSA Proposed Rule Mandates Noisy Cars
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently published a proposed rule that would require hybrid and electric vehicles to make a minimum amount of sound while being operated at speeds slower than 18 miles per hour. Because they use an electric motor, hybrid and electric vehicles...
Regulatory policy, Regulatory studies, Public policy, Commentaries, Regulation, and Federal government
DOE's Proposed Commercial Refrigeration Rule Claims to Save Retailers Money by Reducing their Choices
In September, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule setting energy efficiency standards for 49 different types of commercial refrigeration equipment, establishing maximum allowable energy usage standards as a function of either refrigerated volume or total display area for each...
Regulatory policy, Regulatory studies, Public policy, Commentaries, Federal government, and Regulation
The Social Cost of Foregoing Public Participation in the SCC
The Department of Energy ("DOE") is seeking public comment on whether it was appropriate to rely on an estimate of the "social cost of carbon" ("SCC") in a final rulemaking without undergoing public comment. When DOE published a proposed rule to set energy efficiency standards for microwave ovens...
Dudley, Susan E., Miller, Sofie E., and Mannix, Brian F.
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