The California agency in charge of regulating pesticides handed down new regulations on a chemical found to cause brain damage in children, but public health and environmental advocates say the regulations don’t go far enough.
Read moreAirbnb brought a federal complaint Tuesday in protest of new limits on short-term residential rentals adopted by the city of Boston.
Read moreAn Alaskan moose hunter appeared to earn the favor of the Supreme Court on Monday as he challenged a regulation that bans him from using a hovercraft while on federal land.
Read moreAnnouncing the approval of a tablet alternative to a powerful opioid normally delivered intravenously, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration promised Friday that the drug Dsuvia will be very tightly regulated.
Read moreDon’t take a deep breath and don’t touch anything: Researchers have discovered a mysterious chemical is abundant in homes, the natural environment and electronic recycling facilities and which can be passed through skin contact or by breathing, is difficult to track and largely unregulated by the federal government.
Read moreIllinois election rules lawfully prevent independent expenditure committees from contributing directly to candidates running for state offices, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting a Republican Super PAC’s First Amendment challenge.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit appeared primed Monday to uphold how the government counts bycatch — a term for various sea life unintentionally swept up in commercial fishing.
Read moreTwo mothers and one grandmother filed a federal class action Wednesday claiming Illinois’ lack of regulations to curtail gun trafficking disproportionately affects kids in black communities.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit upheld a Wisconsin law that requires all butter sold in the state to be graded, rejecting an artisanal dairy maker’s claim that the government has no business setting flavor standards for butter.
Read moreA controversial EPA rule proposal from April is already having an impact on regulatory changes across the agency despite the fact it has not gone into effect.
Read moreSmall farmers still waiting on a years-old legislative promise lobbied the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday to dissolve a roadblock put in place by the Trump administration.
Read moreKayakers and canoe enthusiasts brought a federal complaint Thursday to protest security measures that close off a stretch of the Potomac River whenever President Donald Trump is golfing nearby.
Read moreOver 24 hours, three work place mass shootings have occurred prompting former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords – who was shot in the head during an attempted assassination in 2011– to urge action by lawmakers.
Read moreThe public comment period on the Trump administration’s move to overhaul the Endangered Species Act ends next week and if new rules are finalized, it could become harder to protect new species and guard those already under threat.
Read moreBritish lawmakers have backed calls for greater regulation of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in order to bring an element of control to a market that more resembles the “Wild West.”
Read moreA federal judge gave regulators less than six months Friday to begin the process of overhauling pollution standards that have been left in place for over a decade.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Thursday in an artisanal butter maker’s challenge to a Wisconsin law that requires all butter sold in the state to be graded on taste.
Read moreThe League of Woman Voters sued Hawaii on Wednesday, challenging as unconstitutional its “gut and replace” lawmaking, in which bills are stripped of all content late in the legislative process, and “replaced with an entirely different topic that has no rational connection to the original bill.”
Read moreAttorneys for three District of Columbia residents asked the D.C. Circuit court on Wednesday revive a class action challenging the district’s anti-loitering law on the grounds it is impermissibly vague and potentially discriminatory.
Read moreThe Texas American Federation of Teachers and Texas State Teachers Association claim in a federal complaint that the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Mike Morath exceeded their authority by issuing rules that relaxed standards for charter schools.
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