By Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not only costing heavy industries billions of dollars a year, the agency is also forcing companies to spend 188 million hours every year filing paperwork to comply with federal rules. To comply with EPA’s paperwork burden “it would take more than 94,200 employees working full-time (2,000…
By Michael Bastasch The Obama administration’s effort to eliminate red tape hampering American businesses has actually ended up adding $16 billion in new regulatory costs and 16 million hours in new paperwork, according to a report. The right-leaning American Action Forum found “executive agencies have added more than $16 billion in regulatory costs, up from $14.7 billion…
Michael Bastasch Federal agencies have written a record-breaking 81,611 pages of regulations this year to advance President Barack Obama’s massive regulatory agenda which includes tackling issues from global warming to health care. “That’s higher than last year at 77,687 pages and higher than it’s ever been at 81,405 in 2010,” wrote Clyde Wayne Crews, the vice president…