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Federal Investigations within the Department of Homeland Security
The State of Cyber: Breaking Down Recent Rules and Regulations
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DHS and Cyber: What Should Companies Expect?
Take 5 Immigration Podcast Series: Episode 10
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Benesch B-Cast 07: Immigration Deadlines and Demands Employers Need to Know
Where Does the Cybersecurity Executive Order Hit and Miss the Mark?
Critical Infrastructure Protection/EPA Urgently Needs a Strategy to Address Cybersecurity Risks to Water/Wastewater Systems: GAO Issued Report - The United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released on August...more
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular: Acquisition Data Management - On May 30, OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy published a circular entitled, “Strategic Management of Acquisition Data and Information.”...more
The Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week issued an enforcement alert, explaining cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities to community drinking water systems (CWSs) and actions needed by these systems in order...more
The potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform business has commanded enormous attention over the past year. Little noted, however, is the U.S. government’s increasing — and increasingly sophisticated — use of AI...more
On April 16, 2024, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law significant amendments to the PFAS in Products Law. Initially passed in 2021, the PFAS in Products Law required manufacturers of products with intentionally added...more
Look Ahead to the Week of March 4: The State of the Union and Government Spending - Both the Senate and House are in session. This week, Congress will attempt to pass the first tranche of government spending bills after...more
CISA’s Incident Response Guide outlines ways in which WWS owners and operators can engage with federal agencies to prepare for, mitigate, and respond to cyber incidents, including best practices for incident response and...more
Nuclear power has long been a core component of the Illinois energy sector. A new law seeks to enable nuclear power to play an increased role in the energy transition by allowing construction of new “small modular reactors”...more
As we enter the New Year, Wiley has looked back at the top cyber issues for 2023 and what they mean for 2024. Last year, we saw the rollout of the National Cybersecurity Strategy—which outlined a new era of cyber oversight—as...more
Data collected under the PROVE IT Act would measure the carbon emissions of certain goods in the US and other nations. On June 7, 2023, US Senators Chris Coons and Kevin Cramer introduced the bipartisan Providing...more
As the federal government takes increasingly directive steps to increase expectations for private sector cybersecurity, one of its more recent regulatory moves has drawn a federal court challenge. On April 17, 2023, the...more
The first Monday of October means the Supreme Court begins to hear cases for the new term. As we promised at the end of last term, below we summarize cases the Court could address, including issues involving the federal Clean...more
It has been over a year since the Colonial Pipeline cybersecurity incident, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) continues to issue cybersecurity directives to owners and...more
The US Supreme Court’s decisions of late have been consequential. While headline-grabbing decisions deal with religious liberties, privacy, and gun control, the Court’s impact on administrative law will have major...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are in recess this week. Once Congress returns after the July 4th recess, leaders aim to reach an agreement on the USICA/COMPETES bill and...more
West Virginia v. EPA, No. 20-1530 (and consolidated cases): This case concerns the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to impose carbon dioxide emission standards under Section 111(d) of the Clean...more
In November 2021, non‑state issued digital assets reached a combined market capitalization of $3 trillion, up from approximately $14 billion in early November 2016. Several global monetary authorities are exploring, and in...more
Federal agencies have been actively looking at cyber threats to critical infrastructure. In a January 27 announcement the White House said: “it will extend the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Initiative to the...more
The Government Contracts and Global Trade Group is pleased to provide a summary of some of the key class deviations and other memoranda published by U.S. Government agencies implementing the federal contractor COVID-19...more
Earlier this week, the Biden Administration announced a monumental plan to address impacts stemming from per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS). While the announcement details the ongoing and future efforts of eight...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule intending to reduce the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the United States by enforcing a cap and phasedown program under...more
Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) possessed trademark registrations for its own trademarks was honestly not something I had ever thought about before. But then I received a link to the Director’s...more
Minimum Risk Levels (MRLs) for PFAS Chemicals - On May 5, 2021, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services focused on minimizing human...more
Update: President Biden signed The American Rescue Plan Act on March 11, 2021- On Wednesday afternoon, Congress passed The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a broad, comprehensive policy response to the challenges brought...more
As the new Biden Administration takes the helm in January 2021, there are great expectations for the next year in terms of consistency and stability at the federal level. Generally, industry can expect the U.S. Coast Guard...more