Cass Sunstein Is Still Pushing Regulatory Reform -- Why Isn't Everyone Happy?

Yesterday, President Obama released another Executive Order on regulatory reform. The new order expands on EO 13563, and provides three new requirements on agencies:

• Twice yearly reporting by agencies to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs concerning the status of reform efforts,
• Increased public participation in regulatory reform, and
• An obligation to prioritize agency reform efforts to "produce significant quantifiable monetary savings or significant quantifiable reductions in paperwork burdens while protecting public health"

Reactions were predictable. According to the Daily Environment Report, Celia Wexler of the Union of Concerned Scientists decried "the latest in a series of actions by the Obama administration that reinforce the idea that environmental and public health protections are overly burdensome." Is there any doubt that advocacy group members live in a different universe than the rest of us? Has Ms. Wexler missed the CSAPR, the