Government Energy Policy, Business and Technology

For Better or Worse: Environmental and Energy Rulemaking in the Age of Trump

Renewable Energy World: An argument can easily and convincingly be made for the need of the federal government to take stock of its regulatory holdings. No system is perfect; the federal regulatory framework is no exception.

The ascendency of Republicans to the Presidency and majority status in both chambers of Congress has thrown the door open to pent up proposals for fixing a federal system believed bloated and top heavy; a system considered sharing impaired; a governing framework thought to lean further left than Pisa.

The introduction and passage by the House of the Regulatory Reform Act (RAA) and the Regulations of the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS), days after the 115th Congress was called to order, marked the first foray of reform.

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