It’s Time to Shine a Light on Regulatory ‘Dark Matter’
Regulation is not the only way the federal bureaucracy inhibits market innovation. President Trump should address regulatory “dark matter.”
How Does the Government Decide What Is — and What Is Not — ‘Toxic’?
An increasingly frequent and worrisome phenomenon that unnecessarily threatens human health and the natural environment is “regrettable substitutions,” which refers to bans or limitations on certain products, even though the ...
Hazardous to Your Health
As U.S. lawmakers mull over whether to restructure the nation’s health-care system via a “public option,” even the biggest advocates of government intervention should be careful what they wish for. Just ...
The EPA’s Protection Racket
The Environmental Protection Agency is making “significant strides” on issues such as “protecting children’s health” and “confronting climate change,” says a memo from EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson. Not surprisingly, ...
Will Liberty Go Extinct?
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Earth Day, and left-leaning environmentalist activists have reason to celebrate. Over the course of nearly four decades, environmental regulation has grown by leaps and ...
Wrath of the Regulators
Last month, the National Research Council (NRC) — an affiliate of the National Academies of Sciences — rebuked the White House for trying to bring reason to regulatory policy. At ...
Homeland Bureaucracy?
Writer P.J. O’Rourke once quipped: “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” It seems that in these days of terrorist fears, ...
Earth Sense in The Balance
This week, Bush-administration officials are meeting in Vienna to discuss a United Nations plan to globalize environmental regulation. Dubbed the “Strategic Approach to Global Management of Chemicals” or SAICM, ...
Red & Green
If you believe the rhetoric from environmental activists about the Bush-administration budget, you would think that the world would come to an end if we didn’t have ever-expanding bureaucracies to ...
Ratification Without Representation
“Why don’t we just give them ours?” Jay Leno asked last summer as the Bush administration was helping Iraq develop a constitution. After all, Leno noted: “It’s served us well ...