Saving Ocean Fish / Protecting Wildlife
The National Marine Fisheries Service is making a last-ditch effort to save the nation's overfished fisheries. CPR's Rebecca Bratspies says it's the only choice left.

50 FDAs? Really? / Food & Drug Safety
Drug and medical device manufacturers want to be shielded from state tort laws. A new CPR white paper explains why they shouldn't be.

Chesapeake Bay / Clean Water
Promises from states to clean up of the Chesapeake Bay have gone unfulfilled for years. It's time for real accountability, according to a report from CPR's Rena Steinzor and Shana Jones.

Regulatory Puzzle / Regulatory Policy
Three white papers from CPR focus on how to reinvigorate the regulatory system.

CPRBlog
02/08 Good News for the Pika . . . Or Not
02/08 EPA's Lax Confidential Business Information Policy and the Importance of the Hampshire Associates Study
02/05 The State of the Cost-Benefit State: What We Can Expect from Sunstein, 'Nudge,' and OMB on Regulatory Impact Analysis
02/03 Time to Make NOAA Official
02/02 The Human Costs of Pander, Take 3: Parents Beware the Incredibly Shrunken Consumer Product Safety Commission

CPR Hot Topics

Truth About Torts: The Series
CPR White Papers explore the myths about tort reform, and the misuse of federal preemption. A recent entry in the series: Rethinking Regulatory Preemption and Its Impact on Public Health.

OIRA and Reg Review
CPR Board Members call for overhaul of regulatory review process -- replacing cost-benefit analysis with "Pragmatic Regulatory Impact Analysis" and refocusing OIRA's duties away from centralized regulatory review and toward helping agencies accomplish their statutory regulatory obligations. Read a summary of their letter to OMB; or read the letter. And read Rena Steinzor's testimony.

Boxer-Kerry's Journey
Read CPR Member Scholars' blogging on the Senate's effort to pass meaningful climate change legislation. (Or catch up on CPRBlog entries on Waxman-Markey, the House bill that passed in June 2009.)

CPR Policy Perspective of the Week:

Robert Glicksman on National Forest Management.