#regulatory-debate

#regulatory-debate

The EESC warns against 'excessive increases' on the grounds that they could fuel illicit trade, thereby recycling one of the tobacco industry's oldest false narratives arguments against stronger regulation.

The American Bankers Association contends that the Council of Economic Advisers framed the wrong question by focusing on the effects of a prohibition rather than the implications of allowing yield as the market expands.

"I'm in favor of not having any rules against insider trading. I would like all the information out there as soon as it's available. Because look, as a society, we are better off knowing as soon as possible anything that is knowable."

The law did not eliminate the charitable deduction in name. It rendered it functionally useless for anyone who does not already have enough deductions to clear the standard deduction threshold on their own.

Federal Judge Michael Liburdi's decision to back the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission came after a week of arguments regarding the legality of prediction markets. A lawyer for the CFTC stated that a state criminal case would be a flawed approach to resolving contentious issues surrounding these markets.

The FPPC wants to know if county government funds were used on Measure A campaign mailers, following complaints from the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association and Libertarian Party of Santa Clara County.

The average US residential road is 50-feet wide, while European roads are typically between 8.2-10.6 feet wide, highlighting the size disparity of vehicles.

Dozens of local communities, states, and individuals are suing major oil and gas companies and their trade associations over rising climate costs and for allegedly lying to consumers about climate change risks and solutions. At the same time, some states are enacting or considering laws modeled after the federal Superfund program that would impose retroactive liability on large fossil fuel producers and levy a one-time charge on them to help fund climate adaptation and resiliency measures.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took the unprecedented step of designating a U.S. firm-Anthropic-as a supply chain risk. Anthropic's crime? It refused to violate industry-wide protocols against using AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. Hegseth's designation, which has until now been reserved for foreign firms, bars U.S. military contractors from doing business with the company.

Enforcement of environmental laws against major polluters has virtually ground to a halt under the Trump administration, a new analysis of Environmental Protection Agency records from January 2025 to January 2026 shows. Major polluters typically include companies that are among the largest in the oil, gas, coal and chemical industries. Records show the EPA filed just one Clean Air Act consent decree compared with 26 in the first year of Trump's first term, and 22 during Biden's first year.