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Reforms in Electricity Markets – What Next?

March 30, 2015

by Rasika Athawale, Frank Felder and Gayatri Gadag The electricity industry is undergoing rapid changes in response to policy push as an outcome from climate change concerns and disruption pull from products and solutions such as distributed energy resources and...

EPA mercury regs head to high court

March 25, 2015

Detractors of the rule say a Supreme Court ruling in favor of industry could also leave the Obama administration in a sort of tail-spin, in the position of having to re-issue a rule – a process that could take significant amounts of time. But other legal minds say...

Analyzing Regulation’s Impact On Jobs

March 17, 2014

The question of whether regulations to protect public health have hurt employment has been very prominent over the past few years.  One study found that the use of the phrase “job-killing regulations” increased in the media by over 17,000 percent between 2007 and...

New Shapiro article in “Administration and Society”

August 30, 2013

Associate Professor Stuart Shapiro has a new article, “Does Haste Make Waste? How Long Does it Take to do a Good Regulatory Impact Analysis?” (subscription required)  in the academic journal Administration and Society, written with John Morrall of George Mason...

Shapiro discusses relationship between regulation and jobs

October 15, 2012

Stuart Shapiro, Director of the Public Policy Program, took part in a conference at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on September 27-28 to discuss the relationship between regulation and jobs.  As presidential candidate, Governor Mitt Romney complained about...

Stuart Shapiro on RegBlog: Improving How Agencies Collect Information

August 27, 2012

The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) was passed in 1980 and reauthorized in 1986 and 1995. Its history has been inextricably linked with the history of regulatory review and presidential oversight of agency decisions. However, the intent of those who passed it was for it...

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