The White House’s regulatory hub was considered a place where good rules went to die. Richard Revesz wanted to change that.
For the past two years, the Biden administration appointee has sought to reform the government’s arcane rulemaking, making that laborious process more beneficial and accessible to the public from his perch leading the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
During an hourlong interview with E&E News last week in his Eisenhower Executive Office Building corner office, Revesz said OIRA, which serves as a final check on all federal regulations before they’re released into the wild, was seen as “an enemy of regulations” where rules were slowed down or killed for no reason.
“Its true function is to make sure that regulations go out into the world with the best analytical grounding and that they provide the highest net benefits to the American people,” Revesz said.
