Despite evidence to the contrary, three common myths persist about federal regulations. The first myth is that many regulations concern the environment, but in fact only a small minority of regulations are environmental. By some measures, the flow of new health regulation alone since the year...

Owing to a series of incremental legislative and regulatory changes in recent years, the practice of pharmacy in Idaho, particularly with respect to pharmacists' prescribing authority, has expanded far beyond what is permitted in any other state. This paper reviews the recent history of Idaho's...

Worldwide, commercial drone services are being tested and permitted. Progress in the United States has been slow, in part because of a lack of clarity about the federal and state roles over drones and airspace management. To jump-start the drone industry, states can create drone highways —...

The commercialization of air taxis and autonomous passenger drones will one day congest urban airspace. Operators expect that, once flights are autonomous and the cost of service falls, high traffic urban “vertiports” could see hundreds of air taxi takeoffs and landings per hour. Low...

The Agricultural Act of 2014 allowed for federally funded research on hemp for the first time since 1937. Since 2014, pro-hemp legislation has received increasingly bipartisan support, culminating with the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, which would remove industrial hemp from its current Schedule 1...

Regulatory agencies are delegated powers to execute statutory mandates. These powers vary widely across states in terms of how agencies are constrained by procedural requirements found in state Administrative Procedure Acts (APAs) and related statutory provisions and executive orders. Thus,...

The social discount rate used in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an interest rate applied to benefits and costs that are expected to occur in the future in order to convert them into a present value. This conversion is done to ascertain what those benefits and costs are worth today. The social...

Certificate-of-need (CON) laws currently prohibit entry or expansion of healthcare facilities in 35 states and the District of Columbia. In a lengthy process, medical providers must prove to regulators that their new services and equipment are needed. Medical providers who succeed are...

We introduce a new dataset that reveals the relationship between laws passed by the US Congress and regulations issued by federal regulatory agencies. This dataset, which we call the Regulatory Authorities Dataset (RegAuthorities), elucidates the scope of statutes as they manifest themselves as...

Commercial drone industry advocates have asserted for years that drone services will be limited in the United States so long as private landowners are legally entitled to exclude drones from the low airspace above their land. Sadly, the industry’s efforts to weaken airspace rights laws to make...