Clean Air Act of 1990 Backgrounders & Briefs
04/12/2011
Issac Shapiro and John Irons, Economic Policy Institute, April 2011.
A chief priority of the new House Republican majority in Congress is to curtail government regulation. In the first months since the new Congress convened, the House has held dozens of hearings designed to elicit criticisms of regulations, introduced legislation that would dramatically alter the regulatory process by requiring congressional approval of all major regulations, and passed a spending bill that would slash the funding levels of regulatory agencies and restrict their ability to enact rules covering areas such as greenhouse gas emissions.
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01/01/2010
Office of Management and Budget. 2010.
“2010 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities” is a major review of all the federal government's regulations. The report chronicles the costs and benefits of all federal regulations between 1999 and 2009. The agencies found that the average annual cost of their regulations are between $43 and $55 billion, while the annual benefits are between $128 and $616 billion.
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02/01/2006
Frank Ackerman. Global Development and Environment Institute. February 2006.
In his February 2006 Article for the Global Development and Environment Institute: “The Unbearable Lightness of Regulatory Costs” the Ackerman argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, regulatory costs are actually quite small and, in instances where they aren’t, reducing them would not necessarily improve economic outcomes.
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