ClimateWire: The nonpartisan Office of the Law Revision Counsel tends to toil in obscurity, but it has been thrust into the spotlight as its work has become central to a political spat surrounding the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan.
The office's small staff works out of the Ford House Office Building in Washington, D.C. The independent shop is charged with poring over and cleaning up existing laws through a process that includes recommending changes like correcting misspellings and clarifying ambiguities....