Constitutional Law

Bush Administration Pushes Last-Minute Deregulation

As it approaches its conclusion, the Bush administration is feverishly working to shove through a raft of regulation changes that according to The Washington Post “would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo.”

The deregulation, the newspaper reports, would remove or loosen restrictions to protect the environment, including those on power plants, mines and farms. Other proposed policy changes “would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.”

Full post as published by ACS Blog on October 31, 2008 (boomark / email).