Interior Secretary Ken Salazar brought in Michael R. Bromwich, a former inspector general at the Justice Department, to revamp regulation of offshore drilling and to rebuild a demoralized agency.
The report may also have been timed to head off what one official calls "very silly" new banking rules threatening to emanate from Congress.Political pressure had been growing to revamp regulation, after bank supervisors were deemed to have been asleep at the switch as the credit bubble inflated.
Now the conservancy and state, county and town officials say this is the time to revamp regulations and coordinate efforts to protect against future overharvesting.
Since then, the state says it has addressed those problems by revamping regulations surrounding executions and building a new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison.
An Ontario court of appeals last year gave the government until July 31 to revamp regulations for the medical use of marijuana or have the entire section of the federal controlled substance act be voided, which would have made any use of marijuana legal in Canada.
Leaders from Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy vowed over the weekend to revamp regulations of their financial sectors and loosen accounting rules, such as the mark-to-market rule.
Garcetti favored working with taxi companies to revamp regulations that hurt their chances against start-up rivals.
Last autumn, the Sendai reactors became the first to clear safety hurdles imposed by a revamped nuclear regulation authority.
Lawmakers in Taiwan have revamped bank regulation partly to lure new investment to the island's tottering banking system and partly to build bigger financial institutions that can compete with multinational giants like Citigroup, which are gaining access now that Taiwan has joined the World Trade Organization.
Because their installation on an otherwise low-rise horizon provoked a hue-and-cry from preservationists and traditionalists, they will never be replicated; revamped zoning regulations prohibit future towers in the area.
