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Slides: Impacts Of Oil Shale On Carbon Emissions, Jeremy Boak
Slides: Impacts Of Oil Shale On Carbon Emissions, Jeremy Boak
The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale Development (February 5)
Presenter: Dr. Jeremy Boak, Center for Oil Shale Technology & Research, Colorado School of Mines
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Disclosing 'Political' Oversight Of Agency Decision Making, Nina A. Mendelson
Disclosing 'Political' Oversight Of Agency Decision Making, Nina A. Mendelson
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Scholars and courts have divided views on whether presidential supervision enhances the legitimacy of the administrative state. For some, that the President can supervise administrative agencies is key to seeing agency action as legitimate, because of the President's accountability to the electorate. Others, however, have argued that such supervision may simply taint, rather than legitimate, an agency action. The reality is that presidential supervision of agency rulemaking, at least, appears to be both significant and opaque. This Article presents evidence from multiple presidential administrations suggesting that regulatory review conducted by the White House's Office of Management and Budget is associated …