President Barack Obama is winning his regulatory war on coal, even though public opinion supports it as a beneficial part of America’s energy mix. It’s not often that a presidential campaign moment is applicable eight years later. In 2008, then-candidate President Barack Obama told The San Francisco Chronicle, if elected president, “if somebody wants to…
Sean Hackbarth
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EPA Doesn’t Check to See if Its Expensive Regulations are Working
Federal regulators write a lot of regulations—over 500 just in October 2015—but they don’t check to see if those regulations are working, researchers find. Sofie Miller of The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center looked at 22 federal regulations costing $100 million or more annually. “Of the 22 rules we examined, not a single one included a…