The Yellowstone grizzly bear is back from the brink of extinction. Over the past 40 years, its numbers have increased more than 500% from 136 in 1975 to more than 700 today. But rather than celebrate the bear's recovery and help the species continue to thrive, misguided lawsuits from environmental groups and Native American tribes ...
Today the Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum to executive agencies directing them that the Congressional Review Act applies to all guidance documents and non-notice-and-comment rules. The CRA requires agencies to submit all rules, not just formal regulations, to Congress for review and possible disapproval before they can take effe ...
Pacific Legal Foundation and National Review Institute were pleased to present the 4th annual Supreme Court preview event to discuss the consequential cases in the 2017-18 Supreme Court term. ...
Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys Jonathan Wood and Damien Schiff have a conversation with Collin Callahan about the Utah prairie dog, a rare species of rodent found in Southwestern Utah. For decades, federal Endangered Species Act regulations have forbidden state biologists from doing what is best for the species and local residents from doing th ...
The greater sage grouse is a chicken-sized bird that's found on 172 million acres of western lands. The grouse population of nearly 500,000 birds in 11 states was managed effectively, primarily through state and private conservation efforts. That is until 2015, when the federal government asserted itself as the primary conservator of the species. T ...
Next week, the House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust law will hold a hearing entitled "Rulemakers Must Follow the Rules, Too: Oversight of Agency Compliance with the Congressional Review Act." PLF's Todd Gaziano has been invited to testify at the hearing. ...
PLF and National Review Institute will once again host a Supreme Court preview event featuring a distinguished panel of Supreme Court advocates. The event, held near the Supreme Court, will take place at noon on September 29. ...
Congress and President Trump have now killed 13 costly regulations under the Congressional Review Act. While some have celebrated the resulting regulatory relief, others have cried foul. In the absence of a legal argument against the CRA, they say that it's unfair to use an "obscure" law. The latest peddler of this idea is Politico. A ...
This week, PLF's Todd Gaziano and Professor John Yoo (who is also a new member of PLF's Board of Trustees) released a new study that explains why President Trump has the authority to reduce or revoke national monuments. ...
Dear PLF supporters, When the Pierce family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner this year, we will be grateful for the extended family from PLF that came to our aid this year when all hope seemed lost in our battle against the federal government. Ours was a true “David vs. Goliath” battle – officials at the ...
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