The Trump administration is working to roll back a chemical safety disaster rule, putting communities like Baytown, Texas, at risk.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Deregulation Led to the Opioid Epidemic
In 2001, Congress rescinded the ergonomics standard that was designed to stem a range of common disabling workplace injuries. Absent regulation, injuries increased and large numbers of people were treated with addictive pain medications.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Representative Gottheimer Asks Regulators to Deregulate Banks He’s Invested In
At the behest of a big-bank trade group, Gottheimer rallied 16 of his fellow Democrats to join him in urging financial regulators to gut a provision of Dodd-Frank that protects insured depository institutions from risky trading.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Those Boeing Crashes and Donald Trump
It would be convenient to blame Trump’s deregulation. But the regulatory failure that ended in two tragic crashes was all too bipartisan.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Trump’s War on Regulation Is Trickle-Down Economics
The gains go to the top and the losses trickle down to everyone else.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judge Kavanaugh’s Deregulatory Agenda
With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, it would become nearly impossible for Congress to put into place programs designed to protect the weak and vulnerable from irresponsible businesses.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bank Deregulation 2.0 Is Here
A new bill supported by both Democrats and Republicans is yet another deregulatory action that gives Wall Street room to run in dangerous directions.
