By Bitsy Skerry, Regulatory Policy Associate, Public Citizen The Stop Corporate Capture Act (H.R. 1507) is a groundbreaking regulatory reform bill that would finally make the rulemaking process work in the public interest instead of for corporate special interests. And who better to help explain U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-Wash.)…

What the SEC’s climate rules could mean for the future of Environmental, Social, and Governance Funds By Tracey Lewis, policy counsel for Public Citizen’s Climate Program As temperatures rise around the globe, investors who care about climate are trying to put their money to work saving the planet. Big asset…

By Terra Wilbanks, Democracy Fellow for Public Citizen I turned 18 in 2020, just in time to vote in the most important election of my lifetime–but, as a college student studying out-of-state, I knew that lawmakers in my home state and across the country were working to keep me, along…

By Bitsy Skerry, Regulatory Policy Associate, Public Citizen On Tuesday, April 11, Richard Revesz, the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the White House office responsible for the review of major Federal regulations, joined the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS) for a webinar on modernizing regulatory…

By Bartlett Naylor, financial policy advocate for Public Citizen After witnessing the second biggest bank failure in U.S. history, Washington policymakers naturally want to know why it happened and what to do so that it doesn’t happen again. The simple policy answer to the “why” is deregulation; the simple solution…

By Bitsy Skerry, regulatory policy associate for Public Citizen On March 10, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust held a hearing titled “Reining in the Administrative State: Reclaiming Congress’s Legislative Power.” The hearing shepherded a tale of two visions for our system of public…

By José Medina, Texas press officer for Public Citizen [This piece was first published in the Houston Chronicle] The cheapest megawatt of electricity is the one you don’t use. You did not hear this on the steps of the Texas Capitol when our state’s top elected officials were inaugurated…

By Hannah Saggau, Insurance Campaigner for Public Citizen “EACOP is a disaster. EACOP is a carbon bomb. EACOP is a climate hell — and EACOP is destroying our lives in Uganda and Tanzania.” These were the powerful words from Ugandan climate and human rights activist Hillary Innocent Taylor Seguya as…

By Candace L. Milner, J.D., Racial Equity Policy Associate for Public Citizen On the first day of his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order directing each federal agency to create and implement an equity action plan focus on championing racial equity throughout the work of the federal government. Last…