President Obama is moving to complete scores of regulations as he looks to cement key parts of his legacy in the face of a Republican-controlled Congress openly hostile to many of his top priorities.
 
The White House quietly released its formal rulemaking schedule late last week, revealing the administration’s latest plans for regulations currently in the works at agencies across the federal government. The fall Unified Agenda suggests Obama has no intentions of slowing down the process during his final year in office.
 
The document sets 2015 and 2016 deadlines for major rules on everything from food safety and drones to electronic cigarettes and workers’ exposure to harmful silica dust.
 
Nearly seven years after he took office, the president is running out of time to implement important environmental regulations and financial reforms, not to mention bread-and-butter health and safety protections, said Amit Narang, a regulatory policy advocate for Public Citizen.