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With no hope for a national comprehensive climate package in the near term, the focus is shifting to the states and their existing emissions policies. Can the states create the United States’ climate policy? During today’s OnPoint, Michael Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, discusses the emerging policy strategy in the states and explains how U.S. EPA’s pending regulation of emissions will affect existing state greenhouse gas programs.

The Institute for Policy Integrity last week issued a report on regulatory systems of individual states, and New York received a grade of D-plus. The underlying problem for the state’s poor grade was not the regulatory system’s size or the costs it adds to employers, taxpayers and others. Those are true problems, for sure, but this report focused much of its analysis on the effectiveness of the regulations.

New York gets a D-plus grade for its regulation of industries that affect air and water quality, job growth and other essentials, according to a report by a think tank. “It’s not a problem of too much regulation,” said Richard Revesz, faculty director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, which conducted the study. “It’s a question of crafting the right kind of regulation.”

New York gets a D-plus grade for its regulation of industries that effect air and water quality, job growth and other essentials, according to a report by an independent think tank.

New York gets a D-plus grade for its regulation of industries that affect air and water quality, job growth and other essentials, according to a report by an independent think tank.

New York gets a D-plus grade for its regulation of industries that effect air and water quality, job growth and other essentials, according to a report by an independent think tank.

New York gets a D-plus grade for its regulation of industries that effect air and water quality, job growth and other essentials, according to a report by an independent think tank. But unlike the long-running argument between businesses that say the state is over-regulated and environmentalists and other advocates who seek more protections from monied interests, the independent report questions the whole decision-making process in New York’s penchant for regulation. “This is not a problem of too much regulation,” said Richard Revesz, dean of the New York University Law School. “It’s a question of crafting the right kind of regulation.”

A new independent study gives New York a D+ grade for its regulation of industries that effect air and water quality, job growth and other major areas. The independent report questions the whole decision-making process in New York’s penchant for regulation of businesses.

New York gets a D-plus grade for its regulation of industries that effect air and water quality, job growth and other essentials, according to a report by an independent think tank. But unlike the long-running argument between businesses that say the state is over-regulated and environmentalists and other advocates who seek more protections from monied interests, the independent report questions the whole decision-making process in New York’s penchant for regulation.

“This has been a theme throughout Florida’s history,” said Jason Schwartz, a lawyer and fellow with New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, which released a yearlong study last week grading the regulatory frameworks of all 50 states. Florida got a ‘C’ in the report – a better grade than the ‘D+’ a majority of the states garnered. Florida does better than most at reviewing its rules, but places too much importance on costs rather than on benefits, the study concluded. But that grade was assigned before last week’s veto override, which Schwartz said was not a good idea.