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Permitting Reform as Policy Stability

Compromise Congressional legislation could dampen the swings of Presidential regulatory policy

I’ve noted earlier the problems that rapid swings in regulatory policy at the Presidential level have caused over the past 12 years, swinging from Obama to Trump I to Biden to Trump II. And, as in so many other ways, the second Trump Administration is ramping up the swings to a whole new level, with …

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