It’s a new year and you know what that means — new regulations. The Obama administration has wasted no time in writing them. The website Regulations.gov lists 141 regulations
that have been posted by federal agencies in the last three days alone.
Of these regulations, 119 are “rulemaking,” meaning they establish a
new rule. Twenty-three are “non-rulemaking,” meaning the regulations
does not establish a new rule. The largest group of regulations have to do with energy and
environmental issues, many of them issued by the Environmental
Protection Agency. One new EPA regulation is an amendment to a rule on hazardous emissions from lead smelters. The EPA has come under fire from lawmakers for cracking down on
emissions from coal plants and other carbon-heavy fuels and materials.
The agency is also working on 134 major and minor regulations that will take effect in the coming years. Another new regulation from the Energy Department that has been listed since the new year
establishes “test procedures for residential furnace fans.” The Energy
Department under new leadership from Secretary Ernest Moniz has been
less of a lightning rod for controversy, but the department has still
been active in pushing for more regulations...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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