Regulation: CRE urges incoming Biden administration to boost OIRA’s role

The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE), a think tank that independently analyzes federal rules, is urging the incoming Biden administration to significantly boost the role and budget of the White House Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which reviews major rules from EPA and other agencies prior to their publication. CRE says in a Nov. 6 post on its website that OIRA is “one of the very few institutions that has the president’s back when well-intentioned appointees to federal...