Truthout: “A group of senators led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has introduced a bill to combat the Supreme Court’s seismic pro-corporate decision last month to overturn a precedent known as Chevron deference that has enabled federal agencies to issue regulations for decades. Ten senators joined Warren on Tuesday in introducing the bill that would codify the Chevron doctrine and reform regulatory processes to make them more transparent and streamlined. For four decades, judges have cited Chevron deference in allowing agencies and their experts to interpret laws to make rules regarding a wide range of topics, including labor rights, environmental protections, public health, food safety, and more. Ensuring that Chevron, which has been cited in over 19,000 judicial opinions, is law would prevent what experts said will be years of corporations suing to overturn a wide swath of regulations that protect the public and cut into profits. On top of codifying Chevron, the bill would create an office to give the public more participation in agencies’ rule proposals and mandate that agencies respond to public petitions on rules that garner at least 100,000 signatures. It would also create a time limit for regulatory review and expand the parameters that agencies must use in cost-benefit calculations for a rule to include less quantifiable characteristics like combating discrimination…”

See also Coalition for Sensible Safeguards: “Senators should support the Stop Corporate Capture Act, introduced today by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards said. More than 70 groups in the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards are calling on senators to endorse the bill. The House version of the bill (H.R. 1507), introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. “The Stop Corporate Capture Act is a comprehensive blueprint for modernizing, improving, and strengthening the regulatory system to better protect the public,” said Rachel Weintraub, executive director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. “The bill would restore Chevron deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable. The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment. And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people – not just big corporations – can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”