Tag: Regulations

Energy and Environment

Republican climate hawks hope administration’s report on economic costs sway skeptics

Josh Siegel · November 27, 2018 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Don’t let cities ruin the scooter revolution

Yael Ossowski · November 27, 2018 12:00 am

Late last year, CVS Health announced a roughly $69 billion deal to buy another insurer, Aetna. Those companies plan to convert drugstores into health care hotspots that people can turn to for a variety of needs in between doctor visits.

CVS completing $69 billion Aetna merger after winning state approvals

Joe Williams · November 26, 2018 3:57 pm

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, file photo, a flock of geese fly past a smokestack at the Jeffery Energy Center coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. Hundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses to pollute. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Beltway Confidential

Want less government? Take action on climate change sooner rather than later

Erin Dunne · November 26, 2018 2:41 pm

A cyclist passes in front of Liebman's store on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. The leaders of small and mid-size companies are increasingly optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy and their own abilities to increase sales, according to a new survey by JPMorgan Chase.

Support small businesses year-round

Elaine Parker · November 23, 2018 5:00 am

$AP file If the EPA abandons its plan to link hydraulic fracturing to groundwater pollution, it will be a major boost to the natural gas industry.$ Energy and Environment

Keeping the energy revolution rolling

Andrew F. Quinlan · November 21, 2018 5:00 am

In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, photo, the Surgeon General's Warning appears on a pack of Camel cigarettes purchased at a Chicago area news stand.

Court orders more detailed health warnings on cigarette packaging

Kimberly Leonard · November 20, 2018 6:48 pm

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault-Nissan Alliance, attends a press conference held in Paris, France, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. The Renault-Nissan alliance is ramping up electric car production, vowing 12 new models by 2022 and to make electric cars 30 percent of its overall production.

Nissan tumbles amid Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s arrest, planned ouster

James Langford · November 19, 2018 4:01 pm

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission building, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Washington.

SEC members begin examining ‘arcane’ shareholder-voting system

Joe Williams · November 15, 2018 3:44 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, file photo, a currency trader adjusts his glasses near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. A global sell-off in stocks this year has left many small investors more puzzled than panicked and unsure how to act. Ordinary investors around the world were on edge even before signs of a slowdown in China and plunging emerging-market currencies sent stocks tumbling earlier this past week. Stocks had soared by double-digit percentages in countries like the United States, Japan and France in 2013, raising fears that they had climbed too fast and were due to drop.(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Influential advisory firm hones battle cry before clash with Corporate America

Joe Williams · November 15, 2018 10:17 am

Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference about an immigration bill.

Lawmakers push bipartisan bill reining in shareholder advisers

Joe Williams · November 14, 2018 10:05 pm

Randal Quarles, vice chairman of supervision at the Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. The hearing focused on implementation of a new law easing Dodd-Frank Act rules on community and midsize banks.

Fed vice chairman downplays the risk of a financial crisis from regulatory relief efforts

Colin Wilhelm · November 14, 2018 6:30 pm