Regulatory Policy

Regulatory safeguards play a vital role in protecting us from hazards and ensuring that companies that pollute, make unsafe products, and create workplace hazards bear the cost of cleaning up their messes and preventing injuries and deaths. Still, the regulatory system is far from perfect: Rules take too long to develop; enforcement is often feeble; and political pressure from regulated industries has led to weak safeguards.

These systemic problems are made all the more severe by the determination of the Trump administration to undercut sensible safeguards across virtually all aspects of federal regulation. Moreover, the President and his team have taken aim at the the process by which such safeguards are developed, aiming to take a system already slanted in favor of industry profit at the expense of health, safety and the environment, and make it even less protective. For example, where critics of the use of cost-benefit analysis see a system that understates the value of safeguards and overstates the cost of implementing them -- making it difficult to adopt needed protections -- the Trump administration seeks simply to ignore benefits of safeguards, pretending they do not exist. The result is a regulatory system that fails to enforce landmark laws like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and more.

CPR exposes and opposes efforts by opponents of sensible safeguards to undermine the regulatory system, fighting back against knee-jerk opposition to environmental, health, and safety protections. Below, see what CPR Members Scholars and staff have had to say in reports, testimony, op-eds and more. Use the search box to narrow the list.

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William Buzbee's November 3, 2015 testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law on regulatory reform.

William Buzbee's November 3, 2015 testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law on regulatory reform.

Type: Legislative Testimony (Nov. 3, 2015)
PDF: William Buzbee's November 3, 2015 testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law on regulatory reform.
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Author(s): William Buzbee
Tags: regulatory review
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June 14, 2016, Latest House Anti-Regulatory Package Is Beyond Stale, Statement of James Goodwin.

June 14, 2016,
Type: News Releases (June 14, 2016)
PDF: June 14, 2016, Latest House Anti-Regulatory Package Is Beyond Stale, Statement of James Goodwin.
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David Driesen's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law re OIRA's role and cost-benefit analysis.

David Driesen's July 6, 2016, testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law re OIRA's role and cost-benefit analysis.

Type: Legislative Testimony (July 6, 2016)
PDF: David Driesen's July 6, 2016, testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law re OIRA's role and cost-benefit analysis.
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Author(s): David Driesen
Tags: OIRA cost-benefit
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Richard Pierce's testimony before the House Budget Committee re 'regulatory budget' proposals.

Richard Pierce's July 7, 2016, testimony before the House Budget Committee re 'regulatory budget' proposals.

Type: Legislative Testimony (July 12, 2016)
PDF: Richard Pierce's July 7, 2016, testimony before the House Budget Committee re 'regulatory budget' proposals.
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Author(s): Richard Pierce, Jr.
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Memo to the Next President: Let's Make Government Work for All of Us

Memo to the Next President: Let's Make Government Work for All of Us
Type: Editorial Memos (July 18, 2016)
PDF: Memo to the Next President: Let's Make Government Work for All of Us
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August 3, 2016, Memo to the Next President: Let's Make Government Work for All of Us.

August 3, 2016,
Type: News Releases (Aug. 2, 2016)
PDF: August 3, 2016, Memo to the Next President: Let's Make Government Work for All of Us.
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