In May, the United States Senate failed to pass a resolution annulling a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule that sets limits on the amount of residual methane allowed at certain drilling sites. That was the first and only time Congressional Republicans failed to pass a resolution using the obscure legislative tool known as the Congressional … [Read more...]
Trump’s One-for-Two Regulation Rollback Order Challenged in Court
The Trump administration’s executive order to eliminate two preexisting regulations for every new regulation adopted by the government has been challenged in a lawsuit, which the Department of Justice has so far failed to dismiss despite its efforts. Arguments Against Executive Order No. 13771 Public Citizen v. Trump, filed by a dozen health … [Read more...]
Trump Administration Takes Aim at Public Databases
Recently, the Treasury Department submitted a 150-page report to the White House, arguing that the public should not have access to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) database that documents narratives of aggrieved consumers. In 2014, the CFPB proposed expanding its database by inviting consumers to post stories about their negative … [Read more...]
Trump Nominates Yet Another Corporate Representative
Earlier this month, Donald Trump nominated Jeffrey Bossert Clark to be an Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources at the Department of Justice, much to the chagrin of environmental activists. As a lawyer, Clark has actively argued against the scientific underpinnings of climate policy in the United States, most notably … [Read more...]
Kansas Republicans Abandon Governor Brownback’s Experiment in Conservative Governance
Kansas Republicans made an about face this week when they decided to abandon the extremely conservative tax policy that Governor Sam Brownback (R) called a “real live experiment” in unfettered trickle-down economics. The Governor attempted to veto the bill but was overridden by the state legislature, a major embarrassment for the Republican leader … [Read more...]
The Republican Plan to Undermine the Regulatory System
Having gained control of Congress and the White House, the GOP has been working on ways to overhaul the regulatory system in this country. Not only do they want to rescind as many Obama-era regulations as possible (via the Congressional Review Act), they also want to pass regulatory reform that will survive well beyond the tenure of the current … [Read more...]
Trump Administration Rescinds Obama-era Guidance Concerning Student Loan Defaults
Last week the Trump Administration directed the Department of Education to put a stop to an Obama-era rule published in 2015 as a memo. The memo, known as a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), required debt collectors to stop charging high interest rates for defaulted student loans. Trump’s team sent out a letter advising guarantee agencies to … [Read more...]
Trump Rewriting All the Rules
It has been a busy first few days for the US President. In addition to the executive order to provide relief from the Affordable Care Act known as ObamaCare, President Trump has taken numerous other steps to undo actions taken by his predecessor and to hamstring federal agencies efforts to regulate businesses and other … [Read more...]
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