Updates | The Week of April 17, 2017
Take Care // 4/23/17 //
Final guidance on implementing the regulation Executive Order solidifies the order’s existing legal problems, argue Michael Burger and Jessica Wentz (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law).
The nomination of Professor Neomi Rao to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) “fits into the pattern of Trump nominating people to run agencies who have publicly committed to blowing them up,” write Ian Samuel and Leah Litman at Take Care.
Much work remains to be done on the President’s deregulatory agenda, writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
- The administration has added another trick to its repertoire: delaying federal court rulings on regulatory challenges as it crafts its deregulatory strategy (WaPo).
- House Republicans are pushing an aggressive anti-regulatory packagethat some moderates doubt could overcome a Democratic filibuster in the upper chamber (The Hill).