Budgeting For New Executive Order

Activists are encouraging President Obama to issue a long-awaited executive order (E.O.) on regulatory review a year after he announced plans to do so, arguing it is needed to help limit agencies' analytical burdens given spending caps that EPA and other agencies will face in their upcoming fiscal year 2011 budgets. “In light of anticipated tightening of agency budgets, the administration must do everything it can to help agencies make efficient use of their time and resources,” Gary Bass, head...