The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that the agency lacked the authority to regulate the entire energy industry at once, but the Biden administration is taking another swing at it anyway.
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Not content with merely getting rid of Trump-era deregulation, the Biden administration is now tightening energy efficiency standards for a long list of home appliances.
Uncowed, the protest organizer is suing.
High taxes and heavy regulations are as effective as prohibition at creating black markets.
Politicians in the last century accused pinball of being mob activity.
Requiring users to verify their age to use social media will degrade their privacy and cybersecurity.
To address an "unpaid debt bubble," the proposed law would dictate contract terms and require regulators to intervene in commercial disputes.
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The debate over the details shows that, despite all the talk of treating cannabis like alcohol, legislators are not prepared to fully embrace that model.
It equates to "roughly 25,000 years" of filling out forms and other compliance tasks, reports American Action Forum's Dan Goldbeck.
Each state has different cottage food laws that don’t actually protect public health and safety.
Regulations costing less than $200 million will no longer be considered "economically significant."
Stop limiting entrepreneurs’ ability to get funding from those they know best.
Is the publc getting what it wants from the administrative state?
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Kathy Hochul isn't just waging a war on menthols. She's also floating a ban on all cigarette sales in the state.
There is no demonstrable link between alcohol delivery laws and our heightened pandemic drinking.
Financial institutions have been locked out of the cannabis industry because of a surveillance regime that appears to have done little to stop real criminals.
A bipartisan solution to degree inflation
Federal A.I. regulation now will hinder progress, consumer choice, and market competition.
A responsible political class would significantly reform the organization. Instead, they will likely continue to give it more power.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will soon put a permanent stop to the EPA's Clean Water Act land grab.
FTC Chair Lina Khan has an agenda that's against big companies, not for consumer well-being.
The state's labor groups have explicitly said their policy is about protecting jobs from new technology.
Restrictions on baby carriers during takeoff and landing are based on a single study from 1994 that didn’t even study these types of devices.
Plus: the terrible case for pausing A.I. innovation
Is an A.I. "foom" even possible?
A government big enough to "solve" your minor irritants will do plenty of other stuff you don't like.
Restricting foreign real estate ownership has something for both sides—conservatives don't like foreigners, and progressives don't like capital.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
The life-saving drug stops opioid overdoses as they happen, restoring breathing and preventing death. Why did it take so long for the FDA to expand its use?
Thanks to onerous regulations, life-saving drugs are more expensive and harder to get.
While the US Supreme Court continues to require judges to defer to administrative agencies' interpretations of law in many situations, numerous states have abolished or severely curbed such deference. The results should temper both hopes and fears associated with ending judicial deference to agencies.
Which sentence in this podcast was generated using A.I.?
The CFPB funding scheme is constitutional, the 2nd Circuit says.
A decade as a right-to-work state made Michigan better off.
The appeals court says regulators violated the Administrative Procedure Act when they tried to pull menthol vapes off the market.
A bipartisan bill backed by J.D. Vance and Sherrod Brown would include a two-member crew mandate that unions have long sought—and that wouldn't have prevented the Ohio disaster.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the recent trend of rising administrative bloat is going to reverse anytime soon.
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Coinbase says the agency's assault will "only drive innovation, jobs, and the entire industry overseas."
Plus: did the editors sing Happy Birthday to Adam Smith?
Plus: did the editors sing Happy Birthday to Adam Smith?
"The future of our planet depends on how we feed ourselves…and we have a responsibility to look beyond the horizon for smarter, sustainable ways to eat," says GOOD Meat's CEO.
Reason's Austin and Meredith Bragg on satire in an insane world and the man who ended New York's ridiculous, decadeslong ban on pinball.
Austin Bragg and Meredith Bragg talk Remy, libertarian parodies, and their new indie film, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game.
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