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A recent survey by the General Accounting Office reveals that nearly half of the states have no regulation of laboratories thatperform employee drug testing and that only eleven states have specific provisions regulating employee drug testing procedures. Analysis indicates that politically liberal states are more likely to have specific regulatory provisions and that politically conservative states tend to have no regulations at all.

This document contains a brief overview of the structure of state and local government, followed by a discussion of the major state laws regulating the management of solid and hazardous waste. In addition, it gives a breakdown of both applicable and other laws into major topic areas of interest.This is EDIS document FE454, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, UF/IFAS,University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published December 2003. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe454

AbstractRegulation is often justified as a response to adverse selection caused by poorly informed buyers and as a means of preventing a 'race to the bottom' in competitive markets. This paper argues that competitive markets respond with a variety of institutional mechanisms to problems of adverse selection and that these are often subverted by regulation. Far from Gresham's Law being associated with competitive market processes, it is actually more correctly viewed as the outcome of regulatory intervention that weakens the quality‐protecting incentives that economic agents would otherwise face.

The article provides an assessment of pricing policies in agriculture in Russia from 2007 to 2010. The author analyzes the strategy of protectionism in this sector and the impact of global trends on the background of the crisis. The article shows the influence of new federal laws concerning market pricing, first of all, the laws "On retail markets" and "On trade".