On October 9, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) took a significant step toward enabling the large-scale ...

Companies that manufacture products bearing recyclability labels have received temporary relief from impending compliance obligations. On July 14, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern ...

On September 15, 2026, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the EPA’s 2024 risk management rule for methylene chloride and the unreasonable-risk determination ...

This week, U.S. Representatives Bob Latta and Debbie Dingell released the discussion draft of a new bill: the Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution (SELF DRIVE) Act ...

On March 16, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published two proposed rulemakings designed to ease the path for manufacturing autonomous vehicles and deploying them on public roads.

These proposed rulemakings are likely to be similar in concept to the other currently pending NHTSA rulemakings, as well as an earlier rulemaking finalized in 2022. Each such rulemaking updated ...

Companies preparing to comply with California’s Senate Bill (SB) 253 and submit their first required disclosures in August 2026 have received an update this week from the California Air Resources ...

Companies preparing to comply with packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) requirements across the United States, as well as textile producers and those in their supply chains, should update ...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and cryptocurrency continues to drive unprecedented U.S. demand for energy. This acceleration is encountering an increasingly ...

The AV sections of the BUILD America 250 Act focus on commercial motor vehicles, which federal law defines as those with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 10,001 pounds ...

A new report by the U.S. Department of Energy provides a comprehensive assessment of the adequacy and reliability of the U.S. electric grid and warns that without urgent reforms and investment, the ...

The Chinese proposed standards—though detailed—are by and large qualitative and open to interpretation. They are replete with words like “appropriate,” “reasonable,” “unreasonable,” and “sufficient,” ...