EPA aims to update standards for hazardous waste combustors
EPA aims to update standards for hazardous waste combustors

Regulation Digest
July 24, 2024
Vol. 13, No. 30
Editor: Nate Thompson
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Marketplace of Ideas


GW Regulatory Studies
- Congrats to Research Assistant Deven Patel!
AAF
- Future of AI Innovation: Considerations for Congress, Jeffrey Westling
American Prospect
- FTC Opens Surveillance Pricing Inquiry, David Dayen
Brookings Institution
- The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Education, Rose Luckin
Cato Institute
- There’s Nothing “Absurd” or “Dangerous” about Ending the US Department of Education, Neal McCluskey
CAP
- Industrial Policy to Reduce Prescription Generic Drug Shortages, Marc Jarsulic
- Recent Anti-Immigrant State Laws Break New Grounds of Illegality, Tom Jawetz
CPR
- The DC Circuit and the Biden Power Plant Rule, Daniel Farber
CEI
- Congress in a Post-Chevron World, Clyde Wayne Crews
- Event: De-Weaponization of Financial Regulation, Richard Morrison et al.
Federalist Society
- Webinar: FTC Rulemaking, July 24 ⭐ feat. RSC’s Mary Sullivan 
- Jarkesy & the FCC’s ALJ Process, Michael O’Rielly
GAO
- Wind Energy: Technologies and Approaches to Help Address Environmental Effects
Harvard T.H. Chan
- Course: Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health, Sept. 16–20
Heritage Foundation
- Between State Police Power and Federal Preemption, Is There Room for a Gas Hookup?, Jack Fitzhenry
Manhattan Institute
- Zero-Based Regulation A Step-by-Step Guide for States, Alex Adams
NBER
- Navigating Software Vulnerabilities, Raviv Murciano-Goroff et al.
- Intellectual Property and Creative Machines, Gaétan de Rassenfosse et al.
Niskanen Center
- Reforms Targeting “Patent Thickets” Would Speed Up the Arrival of Lower-Cost Drugs, Lawson Mansell
Pacific Legal Foundation
- Call for Papers: The Future of Agency Adjudication after SEC v. Jarkesy, August 1
Progressive Policy Inst.
- Trump’s Schedule F Would Transform the Civil Service to Weaponize Government, Alex Kilander & John Wong
ProMarket
- A 40-year Bipartisan Tech Policy Success Story, Roslyn Layton
R Street
- The Hickenlooper AI Auditing Bill and the Expanding Role of the Commerce Department in AI Policy, Adam Thierer
- Patent Problems Create Higher Drug Prices, Wayne Brough
RFF
- A Tale of Two Investments: Charging Stations and Purchase Subsidies for EV Adoption, Yanjun (Penny) Liao et al.
The Regulatory Review
- An Elephant Giving Birth to a Mouse, Daniel A. Farber
- Keeping Space Clean, Cross Conrad et al.
- Legislative Exactions, Elizabeth Elia
Roosevelt Institute
- Harnessing the IRA: Case Studies in Maximizing Local Economic Benefits, Alí R. Bustamante & Joe Peck
SBCA
- Workshop: Analyzing Uncertainty, July 30 & 31
SSRN
- Hydrogen in the European Power Sector, Julian Radek et al.
Urban Institute
- Preventing Foreclosures, Laurie Goodman & Jun Zhu
Yale JREG
- Does the 7th Amendment Limit State Administrative Adjudication?, Keith Bradley
- Not Only Loper Bright, But Corner Post Too, Allison Zieve
ACUS
- Virtual Panel: Public Forum on the Significance of Recent Supreme Court Decisions for Federal Agencies, July 30
- Request for Public Input on Representation and Assistance in Federal Agency Proceedings
AEI
- Video: Life After Chevron: How Will Congress and Federal Agencies Adapt?

Agency Rulemaking Highlights


Notable Actions

Air Pollution from Hazardous Waste Combustors
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to amend the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Hazardous Waste Combustors. The proposed rule would remove the exemptions and revise other provisions associated with emission standard exemptions for periods of malfunction, add electronic reporting provisions, and amend emergency safety vent provisions. Comments due September 9.
Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Water Heaters
The Department of Energy published a notification of data availability (NODA) on its July 2023 proposal amending energy conservation standards for consumer water heaters. The NODA updates portions of the analysis for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters. Comments due August 22.
Cybersecurity Labeling for Internet of Things Program
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on several items related to Cybersecurity Label Administrator to further the efficient and timely rollout of the Internet of Things (IoT) Labeling program. The program provides a voluntary cybersecurity labeling option for consumer wireless IoT products. Comments due August 19.
Medicare Hospital Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule addressing numerous changes to the healthcare system. Some of the provisions included in the proposed rule would revise amounts and factors used to determine payment rates for the Medicare hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center payment system for 2025; would update and refine requirements for quality reporting programs; and would provide 12 months of continuous eligibility for children under age 19 to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Comments due September 9.
The Opinion Section
Randolph May: Chevron’s Demise Re-Aligns Administrative State With Founders’ Vision
Johanna Costigan: The Death of Chevron Doesn’t Kill AI Regulation
Alan B. Morrison: States Have No Business Regulating the internet, it Should Be Left Up to Congress

WSJ Editorial Board: J.D. Vance, Lina Khan and the GOP’s Economic Contradictions
The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center: Innovation at Every Size: Why Small Firms Struggle to Innovate in Today’s Regulatory Environments
Heather Vogell: The Biden Administration Says its Trade Policy Puts People Over Corporations. Documents on Baby Formula Show Otherwise
Stephen Lezak: This Dirty Industry is Better Off Operating in America
Todd Helfrich: How Federal Funding, Guidance Can Protect the Water Supply
Betsy Swan: A DHS Report on Jan. 6 Could Drop Soon. It Could Be Bad for the Secret Service
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