Who Gets Heeded? An Obligation-Level Audit of Responsiveness in EPA Rulemaking
arXiv:2608.10329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Notice-and-comment rulemaking gives any affected party the same formal right to influence federal regulation, but formal access is not substantive capacity to shape rule text. Existing strategies operate at the rule or aggregate-corpus level, too coarse to capture the discrete regulatory obligations where commenters seek change. We introduce obligation-level responsiveness auditing, an auditable, AI-assisted framework for measuring whether public-c
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Published: 12 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Transparency
Retrieved: 12 August 2026
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