As EPA rolls out controversial regulations on power plant emissions of greenhouse gases, a vocal group of legislators, industry groups, and legal and economic scholars are crying foul, arguing that EPA didn't “follow the rules” when it conducted its cost-benefit analyses of these...

Although the prospect of increased rationality in rulemaking makes legislation, such as Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act (S. 1173), facially appealing, there are a number of reasons to be wary of such efforts to impose OMB-supervised regulatory review on independent regulatory...

Were this anti-regulatory NPRM—or any logical outgrowth of it—to be finalized, it would result in repeated violations of the Clean Air Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. The problematic methodologies being codified in this NPRM would often generate nonsensical, arbitrary results, and...