U.S. to regulate nursing home staffing for first time, as industry balks
The nursing home industry is criticizing the Biden administration’s decision to require the homes to comply with federal rules on staffing levels.
The nursing home industry is criticizing the Biden administration’s decision to require the homes to comply with federal rules on staffing levels.
Ryan Heater has served as the IURC’s staff chief since 2019, but he’ll soon head to Indiana Electric Cooperatives to be the group’s vice president of government relations.
Consumer advocates say the disclosure supports the antitrust lawsuit aimed at blocking JetBlue’s $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit, the nation’s largest discount airline.
U.S. regulators on Wednesday announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving worker safety at thousands of the bargain stores across the country.
The U.S. government’s most ambitious plan ever to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles faces uncertainty over both about how realistic it is and whether it goes far enough.
The Indiana Builders Association said the Supreme Court ruling provides builders and developers “more certainty in the federal permitting process,” and called the decision “a win for common-sense regulations and housing affordability.”
The new rules would almost completely prohibit lead in dust in older buildings. The only contamination allowed would be the lowest levels that current removal efforts can’t eliminate, the agency said.
The 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.