Portland pauses construction on $2B water treatment plant after land-use appeal loss
Portland officials said Friday that the city has temporarily paused construction on its $2 billion water filtration plant ...
Judge Halts CFPB Action After Alleged Plans to Delete Database
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay the deletion of data after the agency’s ...
Argentina To Revoke All Medical Marijuana Cultivation Permits
Argentina's government plans to revoke all permits for marijuana cultivation for medicinal use, Security Minister Patricia ...
Key Musk DOGE adviser meets with leaders of Medicare agency
A key member of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has met with leadership at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees the nation’s Medicare and ...
Lamont wants to keep CT’s top utilities regulator. Lawmakers may have other ideas
Questions surround Gillett nomination after Eversource and UI lawsuit, Hartford Courant story, and lawmakers seeking PURA ...
Trump creates council for ‘energy dominance,’ boosts natural gas exports and offshore drilling
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to ...
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US DOJ claims tenure protection for regulatory commissions unconstitutional
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it will no longer defend the independent status of three key consumer and worker protection agencies, revealed in a letter by Acting ...
Trump administration seeks more power to fire independent regulators
A letter to Congress signals that President Donald Trump seeks to make it easier to purge federal workers and exert maximum ...
Financial firms hated US consumer watchdog, but rapid unraveling creates limbo
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...
‘Deregulation by Firings’: Breaking Down the Cuts to Financial Oversight
The furious pace of deregulation is gutting agencies intended to protect ordinary Americans, consumer advocates say. But ...
Trump unveils nominees for CFPB director, comptroller of the currency
President Trump sent a new list of nominations to the Senate on Tuesday, unveiling his picks to lead several key financial regulatory agencies in his second administration. Jonathan ...
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President Trump signs executive order to reduce regulatory burden
President Trump announced that he signed Executive Order 14192 focusing on deregulation efforts such as requiring federal agencies ...