Commercial space activities conducted by U.S. companies are regulated by the federal government in four major areas: space launches, remote sensing, communications, and limitation of the transfer of technology for reasons of national security and...
Government regulation is part of two larger areas of study, one encompassing all state policy making and administration, whether regulatory or not, the other encompassing all regulatory and deregulatory activity, whether by the state or by some other...
Regulation can be considered as legal restrictions promulgated by government authority. One can consider at least two levels in democracies -- legislative acts, and implementing specifications of conduct imposed by administrative agencies through...
The regulatory agency and the regulated are in constant contact, covering the whole range of regulatory activities. Their communications are frequently verbal; and to the extent that these communications influence regulatory action, the record of the reasons for regulatory action is incomplete. The...
AHEAD of the looming budget, 10 and 11 Downing Street are displaying a touch of unwonted solidarity in their determination to cut the burden of regulation on business. Which perhaps proves that Brown and Blair really are scoundrels, in that every government of modern...
The use of subatomic materials as microscopic building blocks for thousands of consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that few are monitoring the so-called nanotechnology's effects on health and the environment.So Berkeley intends to be the first city to step into...
The Berkeley City Council has approved the nation's only local nanotechnology regulations, another first for the city already famous for taking the lead in banning Styrofoam containers, desegregating public schools and divesting public funds from South Africa.The council on Tuesday decided to amend its hazardous...
