This headline is a sign of how marrow are the circles I in which I move, our high self-regard notwithstanding.
Richard Revesz, the Regulatory ReviewCzar - a position held a while back by Cass Sunstein - is a big name. The immediate past director of the American Law Institute, to which I was inducted twenty years ago, Dean of NYU Law School, he is providding oversight and guidance to the Biden-Harris administration as they confront a Supreme Court super-majority dedicated to dismantling the New Deal legacy - the administrative state.
Though there are exceptions - like Adrian Vermeule - the great bulk of conservatives are knee jerk enemies of anything that impinges on their anarchism they call libertarian.
- GWC
Richard Revesz and His Agency Are Remaking the Pollution Fight - The New York TimesCoral Davenport has been reporting from Washington on environmental regulations since the George W. Bush administration.
This spring the Biden administration proposed or implemented eight major environmental regulations, including the nation’s toughest climate rule, rolling out what experts say are the most ambitious limits on polluting industries by the government in a single season.
Piloting all of that is a man most Americans have never heard of, running an agency that is even less well known.
But Richard Revesz has begun to change the fundamental math that underpins federal regulations designed to protect human health and the environment. And those calculations could affect American life and the economy for years to come.
Mr. Revesz, 65, heads the obscure but powerful White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is effectively the gatekeeper and final word on all new federal regulations. It has been known as the place where new rules proposed by government agencies, particularly environmental standards, go to die — or at least to be weakened or delayed.
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