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Industry Mounts Campaign To Challenge 'Regulation By Litigation'
The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, an industry-funded public policy group, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are planning to document what they say are environmental groups' efforts to establish regulatory policy through litigation. The chamber has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to roughly 30 federal agencies on how they use consent decrees, which are enforceable settlements between the government and private parties, and whether these agreements have been subject to public comment. "They're building the record that many of these settlements are going out without public comment," according to an industry consultant.