Introduction
In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") concentrated its efforts on reducing ozone standards throughout the United States. The lower standards were controversial—pitting environmentalists against businesses. The agency worked diligently to consider every opinion on the potential regulation. On the eve of promulgating the new, lower standards, the Obama administration requested that the EPA delay issuing the final rule—the agency obliged.1 Executive influence over agency rulemaking is common, but is it desirable?
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Originally published in the winter 2013 edition of USF Law Review (Vol. 47, Issue 3).
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