Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
Feb. 8, 2018
As reporting regulations proliferate, so does risk to industry
Agencies are increasingly finding small errors in the reports and assessing significant penalties — they consider these paperwork errors as grave as harmful emissions and an affront to the integrity of the regulatory program.
Maureen F. Gorsen
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
Email: maureen.gorsen@sidley.com
Georgetown University Law Center; Washington DC
Maureen is a member of Sidley's Environmental practice, focusing on enforcement defense and regulatory compliance.
The number of regulations imposing reporting obligations has swelled over the past several years. In a political environment where countless roadblocks impede sweeping environmental legislation, reporting regulations seem like an agreeable midpoint. Agencies like them because they can tout them as a mechanism for monitoring regulated entities and increasing transparency and public dissemination of information. And regulated entities often agree to them because they se...
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