Check out some of the latest news articles of interest to regulatory policy: Assault on Science:

• Chris Mooney, "Some Like It Hot," Mother Jones, May-June 2005 Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil.
• Bill McKibben, "Climate of Denial," id. One morning in Kyoto, we won a round in the battle against global warming. Then special interests and pseudoscience snatched the truth away. What happened?
• David Michaels, "Doubt Is Their Product," Scientific American, June 2005 Industry groups are fighting government regulation by fomenting scientific uncertainty.

Special Breaks for Special Interests: Erik Kancler, "Getting Away With It: How Congressional Republicans have shielded MTBE polluters from liability," Mother Jones, May 24, 2005 Under the Radar: CBC News, "Concerns raised about 1997 U.S. mad cow tests," April 2005 Canadian news coverage raising questions about whether the USDA did not properly analyze two suspected cases of mad cow disease in 1997, years before it showed up in Canada and devastated that country's beef industry.