Tag: Government regulation

Tag: Government regulation

  • Social Media Companies’ Bad Week Ends with Executive Order image

    Social Media Companies’ Bad Week Ends with Executive Order

    Social media companies, the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act recently had a roller-coaster week. First, YouTube found it had a China problem. Then, Twitter decided…

  • The Fires of Innovation Under Fire image

    The Fires of Innovation Under Fire

    The American Legislative Exchange Council is clear in its bias: the organization is dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism. These principles work together to provide…

  • Natural Hair Braiding Protection Act image

    Natural Hair Braiding Protection Act

    Section 1. {Purpose}        Natural hair braiding is a traditional practice that is safe.  It presents no significant health and safety risks to customers or practitioners.  This state should protect liberty.  It…

  • Occupational Board Antitrust Reform Act image

    Occupational Board Antitrust Reform Act

    A bill for an act relating to occupational regulations contrary to the Sherman (Antitrust) Act; establishing the state policy for the regulation of occupations, specifying criteria for government regulation to increase…

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    Administrative Procedures Act

    Section 1. {Short Title} Section 2. {Purpose} a. Rules shall be as simple and clear as possible. They shall achieve legislative goals effectively and efficiently. They shall not…

  • Trump Administration Revises Fuel Economy Standards Impacting the Next Car You Buy image

    Trump Administration Revises Fuel Economy Standards Impacting the Next Car You Buy

    The Trump administration continued to cut regulatory red tape by announcing on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency will revise greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy standards set…

  • Missouri State of the State: Government Should “Do Fewer Things and Do Them Better.” image

    Missouri State of the State: Government Should “Do Fewer Things and Do Them Better.”

    The Show-Me State’s 2018 legislative session is off to an exciting start, as Eric Greitens begins his second year as Missouri governor. His inaugural session in office focused heavily on…

  • Video: Alfredo Ortiz Addresses ALEC Attendees image

    Video: Alfredo Ortiz Addresses ALEC Attendees

    “A well-informed public is the best defense against bad public policy.” During the ALEC Annual Meeting, Mr. Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, shared valuable ideas…

  • While You Were Regulating, the Market was Busy Saving the Planet image

    While You Were Regulating, the Market was Busy Saving the Planet

    Clean Power Plan fallout coupled with lessons from energy innovation successes ought to inspire policymakers to seek actual fixes to our environmental challenges instead of needlessly expand the regulatory state.

  • What Happened to Minimal Regulations? image

    What Happened to Minimal Regulations?

    As food sharing becomes wildly popular, government is once again finding itself operating in a 1970’s construct of regulations and refusing to change with the times.

  • An Increased Burden: Too Expensive and Less Work image

    An Increased Burden: Too Expensive and Less Work

    These regulations will also make doing business in any industry much more expensive. A study by the American Action Forum concluded that the new overtime rule would cost employers about $3 billion in compliance costs and nearly 2.5 million hours of paperwork related to the regulations.

  • DC Circuit Court Upholds MATS Rule image

    DC Circuit Court Upholds MATS Rule

    Dedicated readers of the American Legislator may remember brief coverage of the Supreme Court ruling Michigan v. Environmental Protection Agency from earlier this summer. In a 5-4 ruling…

  • The District’s Next Regulatory Overreach image

    The District’s Next Regulatory Overreach

    Under the auspice of ‘consumer protection’ the District of Columbia (D.C.) Board of Physical Therapy is currently writing rules that will impose a licensing requirement for certified Personal Trainers which…

  • Dodd Frank at Five Years – Another Big Government Failure image

    Dodd Frank at Five Years – Another Big Government Failure

    The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, named for Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Barney Frank, who helped spearhead its creation in reaction to the financial crisis, was touted as a means…

  • EPA: Fracking Does Not Pose “Systemic” Threat to Drinking Water image

    EPA: Fracking Does Not Pose “Systemic” Threat to Drinking Water

    Over the past decade, hydraulic fracturing (often colloquially referred to as “fracking”) has generated a great deal of criticism from environmentalists and other activists. However, after conducting a four-year study…

  • States Submit Comments on Proposed Ozone NAAQS Revision image

    States Submit Comments on Proposed Ozone NAAQS Revision

    The above map compiles and categorizes the comments that state officials submitted to EPA regarding the agency’s proposed revision of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground level…

  • Report: EPA’s Carbon Emissions Rule Will Not Mandate Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology image

    Report: EPA’s Carbon Emissions Rule Will Not Mandate Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology

    A report from Inside EPA ($) suggests that the agency appears to have dropped the carbon capture and storage (CCS) requirement in the draft for the final Carbon Pollution…

  • Massachusetts Governor Sets the Bar for Regulatory Reform image

    Massachusetts Governor Sets the Bar for Regulatory Reform

    https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/massachusetts-state-house-boston-ma-196584359 In late March, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker issued Executive Order NO.562 to enforce regulatory pause and review by the Executive Department in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a…

  • ALEC Weighs in on Proposed Ozone NAAQS Revision image

    ALEC Weighs in on Proposed Ozone NAAQS Revision

    Yesterday, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expressing significant concern with a proposed revision of the current National Ambient…

  • NERA: EPA Ozone NAAQS Regulation Could Cost $140 Billion per Year image

    NERA: EPA Ozone NAAQS Regulation Could Cost $140 Billion per Year

    In late 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule that would further ratchet down national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground level ozone from…