Tag: Regulations

Workers look over wastewater from coal ash as it is aerated in a treatment facility outside Dominion Powers Bremo Bluff power plant in Bremo Bluff, Va.

Energy and Environment

Trump’s EPA to move to make it easier to build new coal plants

Josh Siegel · December 4, 2018 11:16 pm

Senators want the agency to look into whether bank violated overtime regulations with sales goals. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Fed restraints ‘not having much impact’ on Wells Fargo’s business: CEO

James Langford · December 4, 2018 6:30 pm

Bitcoin will live — but it isn’t done bleeding

Steven Nelson · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015, file photo, supporters of Airbnb hold a rally outside City Hall in New York. The New York state Senate has cleared a bill that would ban companies like Airbnb from advertising apartments from short-term rentals in New York.

Airbnb crackdowns in DC, New York foreshadow fierce struggles in 2019

Joe Williams · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

August A. Busch Sr., center, son of the founder of the nation's largest brewery, and his two sons seal the first case of beer off the line for air express delivery to President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the bottling plant of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Mo., at midnight on the day of the repeal of Prohibition, April 6, 1933.

Beltway Confidential

Enjoy Prohibition Repeal Day, but these crazy alcohol laws show we have a long way to go

Jarrett Dieterle · December 4, 2018 5:00 am

Thune introduced the legislation to repeal the death tax earlier in the day.

Senate nears deal to move long-stalled self-driving car legislation

Joe Williams · December 3, 2018 11:22 pm

Tribune lands $6.4 billion buyer after Sinclar takeover’s collapse

James Langford · December 3, 2018 6:00 pm

A Waymo Chrysler Pacifica autonomous vehicle sits parked in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., on Monday, July 30, 2018.

2019 may be year of the driverless car: Here’s where top automakers stand

Joe Williams · November 30, 2018 9:08 pm

The EPA has announced previously that it anticipates lower gasoline prices will drive up demand, which would dilute the percentage of ethanol in gasoline. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Energy and Environment

Ethanol industry doubtful of EPA’s ‘good news’ it’s increasing biofuel mandates

John Siciliano · November 30, 2018 7:12 pm

"You are trying to rush this bill," said Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the committee. (Screengrab/energycommerce.house.gov)

Top House Democrats say Trump’s violating the law by letting states rewrite Obamacare rules

Robert King · November 29, 2018 10:28 pm

Children peer out a screened window in the fence at the Wallingford Child Care Center in Seattle.

Beltway Confidential

When playtime is illegal

Andrew Brown · November 27, 2018 7:08 pm

The scientist-turned-congressman aiming for a climate-change breakthrough

Josh Siegel · November 27, 2018 5:00 am