In the News
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Monday
May 20th,
2013As Concerns Mount, Environmentalists Seek To Raise Carbon ‘Cost’ Estimate
Environmentalists are launching an effort they hope will pressure the Obama administration to raise its default estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC), believing it will strengthen the case for strict greenhouse gas (GHG) rules and other emission controls just as concerns about irreversible climate change due to the emissions are mounting.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund and the Institute for Policy Integrity, a think tank based at the New York University School of Law, are developing a web-based platform to foster sharing of data between climate scientists and economists in an effort that proponents believe will help put pressure on the administration to raise its SCC estimate.
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Wednesday
May 15th,
2013Policy Integrity’s Livermore discusses OMB study on costs, benefits of EPA regulations
Has there been a shift in tone on regulation during President Obama’s second term? During today’s OnPoint, Michael Livermore, executive director at the Institute for Policy Integrity, discusses the politics of regulation as Congress works through the confirmation process for several key regulatory positions. Livermore also gives his take on how Howard Shelanski, the president’s nominee to head up the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, could affect the future of regulations coming out of this administration.
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Monday
May 13th,
2013Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis Spreads to Developing World
Cost-benefit analysis, while embraced by both political parties over the course of the past three decades, is still feared by many progressives in the United States. But as environmental concerns have spread around the world, this tool is lighting a path in many developing countries toward a new generation of environmental policies to protect public health, climate stability, and natural resources. This new role for cost-benefit analysis challenges the sometimes stale and suffocating way in which discussions over cost-benefit analysis are often framed here at home.
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Friday
May 10th,
2013NYU Law School issues report on fair housing law
The Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, a non-partisan think tank, issued a report Friday on the implementation of the Fair Housing Act that recommends that the Department of Housing and Urban Development more clearly define fair housing goals and measure the progress of local jurisdictions in meeting the requirements of the law. Click here for the report.
“Decades after the civil rights movement inspired the Fair Housing Act, HUD still has a long way to go before that law’s vision of fair housing is realized,” said Policy Integrity executive director, Michael Livermore, in a statement. “HUD should take steps to improve fairness and equality in housing markets.”
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Friday
May 3rd,
2013Director of NYU think tank heads for U.Va. law school post
The Institute for Policy Integrity, a New York University-based think tank and advocacy group that is often involved in the nation’s regulatory debates, is losing Executive Director Michael Livermore this summer to a faculty position at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Livermore co-authored the book “The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy” with NYU School of Law Dean Richard Revesz before the two founded the institute in 2008. In his new role, Livermore will still be affiliated with the institute, but Revesz will be taking on a larger role as the group’s faculty director.
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Friday
May 3rd,
2013Livermore Brings New Perspective on Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental, Administrative Policy…
Michael A. Livermore, an expert who has offered a fresh take on using cost-benefit analysis in environmental and administrative policymaking, will join the University of Virginia law faculty in July.
Livermore is currently the executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity and an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law.
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Friday
May 3rd,
2013Michael Livermore ’06 joins faculty of University of Virginia School of Law
Michael Livermore ’06, executive director of NYU Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, is joining the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law this July.
Livermore is the co-author with Dean Richard Revesz of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, which they began working on while Livermore was a student in Dean Revesz’s Environmental Law class. Soon after their book was published, Livermore and Revesz founded the Institute for Policy Integrity, where they served as executive director and faculty director, respectively. Under Livermore’s leadership, the Institute for Policy Integrity has initiated a large number of successful research, educational, and advocacy efforts, in the process becoming a respected voice in often contentious debates over environmental, public health, and consumer regulation.
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Wednesday
May 1st,
2013President Taps FTC Economist Shelanski To Lead OMB Regulatory Affairs Office
Michael Livermore, executive director of New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, praised the selection of Shelanski, saying he brings to the job more real-world experience at a regulatory agency than any previous OIRA administrator.
Livermore also called Shelanski a “technocrat in orientation and pragmatic. I don’t think he’s going to come to the position with a lot of ideological baggage or a particular axe to grind.”
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Friday
April 26th,
2013Obama’s Nominee for OIRA Director
President Obama announced yesterday his selection of Howard Shelanski as the next Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House. OIRA, although not widely known, reviews the regulations that are adopted by nearly all federal agencies: everything from EPA rules to limit mercury pollution from power plants to TSA rules governing airport screening procedures. This will give Shelanski enormous power to shape the remainder of the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda.
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Friday
April 26th,
2013Obama nominates antitrust expert Shelanski as new regulatory czar
“It’s a kind of a thankless job,” said Michael Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
“You’re almost guaranteed to have a lot of forces aligned against you and unhappy with you,” said Livermore, who called Shelanski a “balanced thinker” who understands the complex regulatory process.
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