Public Citizen blogs: FEC, Warren right on fast track, gut WS reform, 'pay-to-delay' suit, EPA bat

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Roiled in Partisan Deadlock, FEC Is Failing

by Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7334888


Why Warren Is Right and Obama Is Wrong on Fast Track’s Threat to Wall Street Reform

by Ben Beachy, research director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division

http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2015/05/why-warren-is-right-and-obama-is-wrong-on-fast-tracks-threat-to-wall-street-reform.html



Darling, It's Over: Posner on Arbitration

by Scott Nelson, attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group

http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2015/05/darling-its-over-posner-on-arbitration.html


Draft Bill Guts Much-Needed Wall Street Reforms

by Bartlett Naylor, financial policy advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division

http://www.citizenvox.org/2015/05/12/draft-bill-guts-much-needed-wall-street-reforms/


California Supreme Court Allows "Pay-to-Delay" Suit to Proceed

by Allison Zieve, director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group

http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2015/05/california-supreme-court-allows-pay-to-delay-suit-to-proceed.html



Legislation Would Undermine EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Take Country Backward in Fight to Address Climate Change

by David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program

http://www.citizenvox.org/2015/05/13/legislation-would-undermine-epas-clean-power-plan-take-country-backward-in-fight-to-address-climate-change/

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1. EPA Gutted

The EPA has almost worked itself out of a job. No, not by making our environment sparkling clean. We're a long way from that. But they did, by their Superfund operation, clean up or isolate many of the worst sites. Rivers that used to catch on fire are now clean enough for swimming. Some of them. The thick blanket of brown smog that once hung over every major city is now a thin layer of tan smog, even on the bad days. In other words, the EPA has succeeded in making the air and water clean enough so we don't notice the problems. And that's good, but the EPA has a tough sell when it wants to make things better. The Republicans, of course, never did like any of the federal regulatory agencies, even though a couple big ones were established in the Nixon administration. So EPAs enforcement powers are severely diminished when they should be enhanced.