The BP Oil Spill / Clean Water
In an LA Times op-ed, CPR's Holly Doremus and her UC-Berkeley colleague Eric Biber say that the Administration's proposed regulatory reforms in response to the BP oil spill fall short.

OIRA Overreaching? / Eye on OIRA
Is the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs asserting jurisdiction it doesn't have anymore, and ignoring deadlines? Several CPR Member Scholars put that question to the White House Counsel.

Agency 'Capture' / Regulatory Policy
CPR's Sidney Shapiro warns a Senate subcommittee about the dangers of Minerals Management Service-style agency capture.

MDE and the Chesapeake / Clean Water
The Maryland Department of the Environment's enforcement of the Clean Water Act comes in for stern criticism in a new report by CPR's Robert Glicksman and Yee Huang.

Farber on NewsHour / Disasters
CPR's Dan Farber was on the PBS NewsHour on June 14 discussing BP's liability for its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

CPRBlog
09/02 For the Price of a Speeding Ticket: Raw Sewage in a River Near You
09/01 Egg Industry's Effort to Push Salmonella Problem as Consumers' Fault A Worrying Example of "Risk Avoidance" Policy Approaches to Health and Safety Regulation
09/01 The Costs of Regulatory Delay: Could We Have Stopped 1,470 From Being Sickened by Salmonella-Laced Eggs?
08/31 Not Carbon Offsets, but Carbon Upsets
08/31 Boehner's Attack on Regulation Runs Afoul of Lessons From BP and Katrina

CPR Hot Topics

Truth About Torts: The Series
CPR White Papers explore the myths about tort reform, and the misuse of federal preemption. A recent entry in the series: Plausibility Pleading: Barring the Courthouse Door to Deserving Claimants.

Reg Report Card
In January 2010, CPR Member Scholars issued grades to the Obama Administration for its first-year performance on regulatory issues. See how your favorite protector agency fared, here.

OIRA and Reg Review
CPR Board Members call for overhaul of regulatory review process -- replacing cost-benefit analysis with "Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis" and refocusing OIRA's duties away from centralized regulatory review and toward helping agencies accomplish their statutory regulatory obligations. Read a summary of their letter to OMB; or read the letter. And read Rena Steinzor's testimony.

Kerry-Lieberman's Journey
Read CPR Member Scholars' blogging on the Senate's effort to pass climate change legislation. (Or catch up on CPRBlog entries on Waxman-Markey, the House bill that passed in June 2009.)

CPR Policy Perspective of the Week:

Changing Corporate Behavior in a Socially Responsible Direction.