April 17, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The FAA and Flights of Financial Folly
Boeing Won’t Self Regulate; We Can’t Keep Trusting Them To
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April 15, 2024
Unpacking The Federal Executive Branch, A Conversation With Vanderbilt University Professor David Lewis
Coverage of presidential elections typically hones in on contestants’ competing legislative visions, which in truth, tend to morph considerably when hit by the reality of an intransigent Congress. This prompts an important question: are presidential elections overrated? Well, before drawing that conclusion, consider one of the underrated consequences of a federal election: the potential for a new administration to alter the management of the federal workforce and the operations of individual departments within the executive branch. Although journalists eschew reporting of these consequences in favor of (legislatively focused) policy platforms and rallies, there is a wide body of academic research which investigates the impact of presidential administrations on the federal executive branch’s ability and capacity to fulfill its roles and responsibilities.
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February 29, 2024
RELEASE: Treasury Must Continue To Stand Firm Against Industry Fearmongering and Regulatory Capture in Finalizing Clean Hydrogen Guidance
In response to Thursday’s reporting from E&E News on the Energy Department pushing the Treasury Department to align its clean hydrogen tax credit guidance with industrial polluters’ wishlist, the Revolving Door Project released the following statement:
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February 28, 2024
Government Shutdown Threats Allow GOP to Signal to Corporate Cronies It’s Open Season on Consumers
We’re staring down a familiar deadline this week: On Friday, if Congress doesn’t pass a spending bill, we’ll enter a partial government shutdown. And if they pass a short term continuing resolution… we’ll have just kicked the can a few weeks down the increasingly potholed (due to inadequate maintenance) road.
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February 21, 2024 | The New Republic
A Return to Trump’s Housing Policies Would Be a Disaster
The former president made his name as an unscrupulous real estate magnate. So it’s no surprise that he pushed for ideas designed to take from the poor and give to the rich.
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February 15, 2024
Julian Scoffield Vishal Shankar Ethan Cook
Newsletter Corporate CrackdownDepartment of JusticeExecutive BranchHousing
An RDP Love Letter To Picking Fights and Good Punditry
Cracking down on corporate abuses is what government should be for.
February 06, 2024
Civil Society Comment on the Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights
Unfortunately, despite numerous petitions presented over the 40-plus year history of the Bayh-Dole Act, not once has a federal agency exercised its right to march-in and license competition to remedy price gouging (which constitutes a failure of the owner of a subject invention to make that invention available to the public on reasonable terms), or otherwise.
February 02, 2024
Advocates Thank President Biden and USTR Katherine Tai For Withdrawing Support For Extreme Digital Trade Proposals
RDP joined a coalition of labor unions, nonprofits and activist groups to thank President Biden and United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai for standing firm in support of a worker-centered trade agenda that preserves space for needed public interest policies.
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January 31, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
More Revolvers Join The Fight Against The Regulatory State
The regulatory authority of the executive branch is under attack, and BigLaw firms stacked with revolvers are on the front lines leading the assault. I’ve previously written about former FTC Commissioner Christine Varney challenging the legitimacy of her former employer on behalf of pharma company Illumina. Lawyers at Latham & Watkins, a firm stacked with revolvers from executive branch agencies, are before the Supreme Court challenging the Chevron Doctrine, which defers to executive agencies’ interpretations when legislative statutes are unclear. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to hold administrative proceedings hangs in the balance as we await the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, where the Fifth Circuit’s ruling decimated the agency’s authority. In a new attack, revolvers on the labor/management relations team at Morgan Lewis & Bockius have their sights set on the plutocrats’ latest target: the National Labor Relations Board.
January 24, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Fox News Doesn’t Like Us Pointing Out Underutilized EPA Powers
You know you’re doing something right when Fox News is mad about it. So I guess we can count Fox’s vexed coverage of the coalition letter that we and 146 other organizations sent the Environmental Protection Agency last week as a sign that we’re ruffling the right feathers.
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January 24, 2024
PODCAST: RDP's KJ Boyle Talks Trump's Labor Record On The Majority Report
RDP Research Assistant KJ Boyle joined the Majority Report with Sam Seder to discuss his piece in The New Republic titled Donald Trump Is No Friend to the Working Class.
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January 23, 2024 | The New Republic
Donald Trump Is No Friend to the Working Class
It’s no contest: The Biden administration’s labor policies have been dramatically better for ordinary Americans than those of his predecessor.
January 16, 2024
147 Groups Call On EPA To Use Clean Air Act Powers to Refer PNW Pipeline Approval to CEQ For Review
On January 16, Bloomberg covered a letter from 147 groups that the Revolving Door Project co-organized with the Center for Biological Diversity and Columbia Riverkeeper, calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to utilize its Clean Air Act Section 309 powers to refer the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to the White House Council on Environmental Quality for review. FERC’s approval of the pipeline disregarded both the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and legally-binding state-level decarbonization commitments in Washington and Oregon.
December 20, 2023
Rahm Emanuel, LNG Ambassador To Japan
The pressure on the Biden administration to stop the rapid ongoing expansion of liquified natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure in the United States is intensifying. Over 300 organizations released a letter at COP28 demanding that the administration halt the planned build-out of LNG facilities. 60 Democrats in Congress wrote a letter demanding that the Energy Department reassess whether new LNG terminals were in the national interest. The Hill reported that the Biden administration’s continued support for LNG exports was causing a “revolt” within the Democratic party.
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