Agency Rulemaking Highlights

Notable Actions

• Supreme Court to Hear Another Broad Challenge to Agency Power, New York Times
• Biden Calls on Agencies to Spur More Competition with Their Regs, Government Executive
• NIST Takes on Major Vulnerability in Cyber Guidelines Through Novel ‘Patch Release’, Federal News Network

• Hedge Funds Must Tell SEC Which Companies They Sell Short Under New Rules, Wall Street Journal
• US Derivatives Regulator Plans Tougher Enforcement Approach, Wall Street Journal
  
• Crypto Is Still the Wild West Almost a Year After FTX Collapse, Wall Street Journal
• SEC Exams of Private Equity Will Focus on Fees, Fund Marketing, Wall Street Journal
• SEC Chief Warns of Potential for AI-caused Financial Crisis, The Hill

• US Scales Back Hopes for Ambitious Climate Trade Deal With Europe, New York Times
• Global Emissions from Energy Use to Increase Through 2050, The Hill
• One Key Step in the Energy Transition: No New Gas Lines, Washington Post
  
• Biden Administration Funding Seven Regional Energy Hubs, The Hill
• EPA Finds Small Planes’ Lead Pollution Threatens Human Health, Washington Post
  
• A Watchdog Group Found a Big Flaw in a Major Environmental Policy, Washington Post
• The Next Front in the Climate Fight: US Exports of Natural Gas, Washington Post
• PG&E's Plan to Bury Power Lines and Prevent Wildfires Faces Opposition Because of High Rates, Washington Post
• How Gas Utilities Used Tobacco Tactics to Avoid Gas Stove Regulations, NPR
• Keystone Environmentalist Targets LNG, Venture Global’s CP2, Bloomberg

• Amazon, Tripadvisor and Other Companies Team Up to Battle Fake Reviews While FTC Seeks to Ban Them, Washington Post
• The Upshot of Microsoft’s Activision Deal: Big Tech Can Get Even Bigger, New York Times
• How Microsoft Turned the Tide in Its Regulatory Fight Over Activision, New York Times
• Microsoft Beats the Antitrust Odds on Its Activision Deal, New York Times
• US Tightens Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China, Widening Rift With Nvidia and Intel, Wall Street Journal

• Commerce Department Moves to Cut Key Supply Lines to China’s AI Industry, Washington Post
• Biden Administration Announces New Restrictions on Exporting AI Chips to China, Axios
• Congress Scrambles to Craft AI Privacy Rules as Industry Races Ahead, The Hill
  
• Europe and Japan are Leading the Race to Build AI Rules, Forbes

• California’s Ban on Red Food Dye Puts FDA’s Food Policies on the Spot, New York Times
• There's Renewed Pressure on the FDA to Ban Synthetic Food Dye Red No. 3, NPR
• FDA Moves to Ban Sales of Vuse Menthol Vapes, New York Times

• Auto-Safety Regulators Investigate Cruise’s Self-Driving Cars Over Pedestrian Risks, Wall Street Journal
• US Regulators Investigate GM's Cruise Division Over Incidents Involving Pedestrians in Roadways, Washington Post
• Automakers Have Big Hopes for EVs; Buyers Aren’t Cooperating, Wall Street Journal
• SpaceX to the FAA: The Industry Needs You to Move Faster, Washington Post
• SpaceX Seeks to Head Off New Human Spaceflight Safety Rules, Bloomberg

• More Than 400,000 Student Loan Borrowers Had Wrong Monthly Payments, New York Times