The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule—released last week—would extend monitoring, closure, and cleanup provisions to certain landfills, ponds and other sites for the first time.
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There’s one more step: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must agree to expand Pfizer and Moderna boosters to even healthy young adults. Its scientific advisers were set to debate later Friday.
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order with Facebook—now called Meta. The FTC said the company has failed to fully comply with the order. Meta called the announcement a “political stunt.”
FTC Chair Lina Khan joined top officials from U.S. civil rights and consumer protection agencies to put businesses on notice that regulators are working to track and stop illegal behavior in the use and development of artificial intelligence.
U.S. banks are pitted against each other as regulators move to strengthen oversight after a series of failures undermined confidence in the financial system.
Michael Barr, the nation’s top banking regulator, said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing that the Federal Reserve is considering whether stronger bank rules are needed to prevent a similar bank failure in the future.
Former Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana was among the top Senate recipients of money from the banking industry during the 2018 campaign season when he served on a group that successfully pushed for easing banking oversight.
Supporters maintain the bill will keep Indiana from relying too heavily on natural gas. Some energy advocates are more hesitant, however, expressing concern that the measure could slow the state’s transition to cleaner energy sources.
The new standards, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency, are intended to place tighter constraints on air pollution from 23 states, including Indiana.
In a sign of how fast the financial bleeding was occurring, regulators announced that New York-based Signature Bank had also failed and was being seized on Sunday.
Federal investigators are opening a wide-ranging investigation into one of the nation’s biggest railroads following a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month and several other accidents involving Norfolk Southern.
The Federal Trade Commission alleged that the company violated online child privacy laws and tricked players to making unintentional purchases.
The report comes in the wake of heavy criticism of the agency’s handling of a formula shortage earlier this year. Food safety experts have long complained that the agency’s food oversight arm has been chronically understaffed and underfunded.
Alcohol delivery app Drizly has agreed to tighten its data security and limit data collection to resolve federal regulators’ allegations that its security failures exposed the personal information of some 2.5 million customers.
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that all new vehicles in the U.S. be equipped with blood alcohol monitoring systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving.
David Veleta succeeds David Ober, who resigned as commissioner in June after being named vice president of taxation and public finance for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
The inquiries come as the cryptocurrency market has seen immense volatility, as bitcoin lost nearly half its value at one point this year and other cryptocurrencies fell even more.
Federal regulators are looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security.
As Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service used a “kill switch” to thwart regulators and law enforcement, and channeled money through Bermuda and other tax havens, according to a report released Sunday.
The agreement comes one day after the FDA placed a hold on its initial order banning Juul’s products from the market, saying that Juul’s application warranted “additional review.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his department could take enforcement action against airlines that fail to meet consumer-protection standards, although he thinks that won’t be necessary.
The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
