Tag: Regulations

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Energy and Environment

Trump kills Obama’s unhelpful emissions regulation

Washington Examiner · August 3, 2018 4:00 am

A poor air quality sign is posted over a highway in Salt Lake City.

Energy and Environment

EPA decides to keep and defend Obama's strict smog rules

Josh Siegel · August 1, 2018 10:54 pm

T-Mobile adds 1.6M customers as federal approval for Sprint merger remains pending

Joe Williams · August 1, 2018 10:00 pm

The HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Obamacare is now optional

Michael F. Cannon · August 1, 2018 6:13 pm

FDA warns against painful side effects from ‘vaginal rejuvenation’

Kimberly Leonard · July 30, 2018 10:11 pm

A traveler walks past a sign advertising a Delta Air Lines credit card at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash., on March 24, 2015.

Senate moving ahead with airline fee rules despite Trump’s opposition

Joe Williams · July 27, 2018 5:01 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler smiles as he is introduced to speak to EPA staff on Wednesday at EPA Headquarters in Washington.

Energy and Environment

New EPA head Andrew Wheeler reverses Scott Pruitt’s parting gift to polluting trucks

Josh Siegel · July 27, 2018 12:50 pm

States sue to stop expansion of cheaper insurance plans

Robert King · July 26, 2018 6:59 pm

This July 17, 2018 photo shows wrapped plastic straws at a bubble tea cafe in San Francisco. Eco-conscious San Francisco joins the city of Seattle in banning plastic straws, along with tiny coffee stirrers and cup pluggers, as part of an effort to reduce plastic waste. It also makes single-use food and drink side items available upon request and phases out the use of fluorinated wrappers and to-go containers.

Beltway Confidential

With plastic straw bans, the nanny state has officially gone too far

Nicole Russell · July 26, 2018 5:08 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appears speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar bashes Obamacare exchanges, Medicaid expansion

Kimberly Leonard · July 26, 2018 4:52 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about prescription drug prices with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, right, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday May 11, 2018, in Washington.

Celgene bows to White House pressure after raising prices for cancer drug

Joe Williams · July 26, 2018 2:15 pm

Comcast and Time Warner Cable regularly rank at the bottom of the pay TV industry when it comes to customer satisfaction. So it didn't take long for customers to vent frustrations online over high prices, spotty service and fears of a monopoly after Comcast announced its $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Comcast profits jump after CEO abandons bidding war for Fox

Joe Williams · July 26, 2018 12:58 pm