Energy industry runs roughshod over ND

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Colorado Becomes World's First Legal, Fully-Regulated Marijuana Market

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7 Dangerous Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine in America | Alternet

7 Dangerous Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine in America | Alternet
"All of which got me thinking about other food-related substances and practices that are banned in Europe but green-lighted here. Turns out there are lots. Aren't you glad you don't live under the Old World regulatory jackboot, where the authorities deny people's freedom to quaff  atrazine-laced drinking water, etc., etc.?"

It’s Official: $1 Invested In EPA Yields $10 In Benefits

It’s Official: $1 Invested In EPA Yields $10 In Benefits: By Gernot Wagner via EDF The Office of Management and Budget is nerd heaven: a bunch of people getting their professional kicks from analyzing federal regulation. This bean counting may sound painfully lacking in glamour, but it’s incredibly important. OMB’s annual report to Congress on the benefits and costs of all major rules adopted by [...]/p

Illinois Ranks As Worst Rogue Coal State: Strip Mine Permit To Serial Violator Stuns Residents | Alternet

Illinois Ranks As Worst Rogue Coal State: Strip Mine Permit To Serial Violator Stuns Residents | Alternet
"With state coal production soaring against national trends, Illinois cemented its reputation as the worst rogue state for coal operations last Friday, when the rubber-stamping operations of the state's EPA issued a pollutant discharge permit to a company already cited by the state for over 600 toxic discharge violations at its central Illinois non-union strip mine.

Translation: Imagine the Department of Motor Vehicles renewing the driver's license of a toxic-laden truck driver with 600 DUI's."

Ayn Rand and the Horror at a Texas Fertilizer Facility | Alternet

Ayn Rand and the Horror at a Texas Fertilizer Facility | Alternet
"the central role that absolute free market libertarianism, as personified by the fictional John Galt, played in the horrific explosion in West, Texas that took the lives of fourteen people, most of whom were volunteer firefighters fighting a fire at an unregulated fertilizer facility. We have now learned that the facility had a checkered history of ignoring regulations and had 1350 times more ammonium nitrate on hand than the amount that triggers a legal requirement to report the facility to Department of Homeland Security. Of course, the facility’s owner chose to ignore that regulation along with the many other regulations he chose to ignore."

Democratic Senator Presses Regulators On Why Big Banks Can’t Be Broken Up

Democratic Senator Presses Regulators On Why Big Banks Can’t Be Broken Up: Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gained a deserved amount of attention for grilling bank regulators on whether the nation’s biggest financial firms have become “too big for trial.” But she wasn’t the only one chasing regulators for answers on how to rein in the nation’s banking behemoths. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) wanted to know [...]/p

Elizabeth Warren's Big Moment

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How The Food And Drink Industries Use Big Tobacco’s Strategies To Undermine Public Health

How The Food And Drink Industries Use Big Tobacco’s Strategies To Undermine Public Health: The powerful companies in the food, drink, and alcohol industries — defined as “unhealthy commodity” companies — are circumventing public health policies by employing the same tactics that Big Tobacco uses, health experts reported on Tuesday. After analyzing the multinational businesses’ marketing strategies, researchers concluded the industry needs tighter outside regulation to prevent it from [...]/p

Another Study Confirms That Taxes And Regulations Aren’t Holding Back Job Creation

Another Study Confirms That Taxes And Regulations Aren’t Holding Back Job Creation: A favorite GOP talking point is that a slew of regulation and taxes are preventing employers from creating jobs, which explains the stubbornly high unemployment rate. “By pursuing a steady repeal of job-destroying regulations, we can help lift the cloud of uncertainty hanging over small and large employers alike, empowering them to hire more workers,” [...]/p

The Bottom Line: Regulation

Boeing’s Battery Fires Illustrate The Perils Of Self-Regulation

Boeing’s Battery Fires Illustrate The Perils Of Self-Regulation: Airline manufacturer Boeing’s newest plane, the 787 Dreamliner, is grounded around the world due to concerns over the lithium battery on which it relies. On January 7, a battery caught fire inside a parked Dreamliner in Japan, raising concerns that similar problems may be prevalent in the new planes. The Federal Aviation Administration, the airline [...]/p

People like Koch out to own the political system and gut regulation, says Columbia’s Jeffrey Sachs

Tea Party Sen. Jim DeMint Wants JPMorgan CEO to 'Guide' Congress on Banking Regulation

Tea Party Sen. Jim DeMint Wants JPMorgan CEO to 'Guide' Congress on Banking Regulation
"Tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) on Wednesday asked JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who recently announced that his company had lost at least $2 billion in the derivative market, to "guide" Congress in creating friendly banking regulations."