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2 Admin. L. Rev. Accord 1 (2016-2017)

handle is hein.journals/alrcod2 and id is 1 raw text is: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW ACCORD HOLDING TIGHT TO THE REIGNS IN HARNESSING INDUSTRY INFLUENCE: A COMMENT ON PROFESSOR LAURENCE TAI WENDY E. WAGNER* INTRODUCTION What would our pollution control standards look like if industry were not allowed to participate? In Hanessing Industy Influence, Laurence Tai argues that we would be worse off because the standards might be designed in ways that bypass creative and publicly-preferable alternatives., Smart regulations require the engagement of the regulated parties. Indeed, Tai suggests that rather than simply allowing industry to comment before rules are promulgated, industry should be active throughout the rulemaking process without any apparent limits to regulators in providing this information.2 Although staging a productive exchange between regulated parties and agencies may not be as easy as Harnessing implies, Tai is clearly right on the big point that there is likely a great deal of valuable information that regulated parties could more easily produce to inform regulatory decisions, and that this information will only be extracted with the right type of * Joe A. Worshamn Centennial Professor, University of Texas School of Law. 1. Laurence Tai, HamnessitgIndust Inlence, 68 AOMIN L. REV. 1,4 6 (2016). 2. Id. at 5 (Idnstry needs access to regulators in order to inform them, and the ability to influence regulation through various activities constitutes a benefit that incentivizes industry to generate costly information for and in these activities.'. Tai also suggests that insulation strategies, such as those that attempt to limit the opportunities for industry input outside of the comment process, should be supplanted instead with greater industry information that is catalyzed by a biased, anti-industry starting point. Id. at 14 15.

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