In the News
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Wednesday
March 11th,
2009Obama’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Plan Can Boost Growth
President Barack Obama hits three nails on the head with his plan to cap carbon emissions: weaning us off fossil fuels, spurring a wave of investment and job creation, and putting cash in the pockets of Americans who most need it.
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Wednesday
March 4th,
2009Should The U.S. Resurrect Superfund?
Often, the Superfund is associated with the big toxic cleanups one reads about in the news. But just as important are the toxic disasters that never happen because of the threat of Superfund liability. By bringing the Superfund back from the dead, President Obama will reinvigorate incentives for proper waste disposal taxes that have essentially lapsed while the Superfund stalled.
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Tuesday
February 24th,
2009Why Obama’s Regulatory Czar Makes Liberals Nervous
And in the midst of a severe economic downturn, [Livermore] says, “it’s going to be essential to have a strong cost-benefit analysis in support of any regulation as a way of selling it to the American public. If I were a President who wanted to have a strong environmental agenda, the last thing I would do is say ‘We’re not going to look at the costs of these regulations, we’re just going to do them. “
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Monday
February 9th,
2009The Costs and Benefits Of Cass Sunstein
Sunstein knows “you have to understand the consequences between difficult choices,” said Revesz. “He’ll be focused on making the choice that maximizes social welfare as opposed to some ideological predisposition.”
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Monday
February 9th,
2009Shock To The System: Should Uncle Sam Force Power Companies To Go Green?
Until existing imbalances are eliminated, it would make sense for the Obama administration to implement short-term mechanisms to create incentivizes for clean energy. But the longer-term focus should be on trying to move away from this approach as quickly as possible as it can only be a stop gap measure treating a symptom and not the disease.
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Wednesday
February 4th,
2009On Regs, Obama Thinking Out of the Box
Michael Livermore, an expert on regulatory policy at New York University’s School of Law, says revoking that executive order carried an important symbolic message: “Whatever you thought you knew about regulatory policy—things are going to be different.”
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Wednesday
February 4th,
2009Obama tosses Bush order, eases OMB grip on rulemaking
This is a step that the Obama administration is taking, saying ‘We want to allow that process to work without political interference,’ and I really think that’s the signal that they’re sending right now,” Livermore said.
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Tuesday
February 3rd,
2009Regulation Czar: Low Profile, Big Influence
Cass Sunstein, one of the new President’s friends and advisers since Obama’s days at the University of Chicago, has landed one of the most powerful jobs in Washington—but one that is little known outside the Beltway. As director of the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), he will review every major regulation promulgated by any federal agency, from clean air to airline safety.
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Friday
January 30th,
2009Simple Fix in Stimulus Plan Could Boost Impact of Billions of Dollars for Energy Efficiency
The Senate has a very important opportunity to improve the stimulus bill,’ Livermore said. ‘It must make sure this stimulus is a long-term dividend for the economy that keeps paying us back and isn’t just a flash in the pan.
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Friday
January 30th,
2009Stimulus efficiency cash insufficient without standards, advocates say
A key component … is to ensure new building that is being generated by the stimulus package is not following the old way of doing business of excess energy consumption,” Michael Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, told reporters yesterday.
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