On March 28th, Québec Environment minister Yves-François Blanchet announced that the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) will hold public hearings on the uranium sector in Québec. These hearings are...more
On January 30, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the “Departments”) released proposed regulations regarding contraceptive coverage for employees of religious employers. This guidance is the...more
On January 31, HUD and the FHFA announced that the FHA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac will extend for an additional 90 days protections against foreclosure actions for borrowers whose properties were damaged or destroyed due to...more
As of December 29, 2012, the moratorium preventing the designation of new long term care hospitals (LTCHs) or LTCH satellites or the addition of new LTCH beds has expired....more
As we have discussed in prior posts, Maryland has in place a de facto moratorium on shale exploration and drilling. Responding to inquiries about drilling into Marcellus shale formations in western Maryland, in 2011 Governor...more
On December 6, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") announced that it will no longer defer consideration of exemptive requests relating to actively managed exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") seeking to...more
In a speech on December 6 before the ALI CLE 2012 Conference on Investment Adviser Regulation: Legal Compliance Forum on Institutional Advisory Services, Norm Champ, the new Director of the Division of Investment Management...more
On December 6, 2012, Norm Champ, Director of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), announced an end to the moratorium on issuing exemptive orders to non-leveraged, actively...more
The staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released no action relief (the “Letter”) addressed to recipients of 18 prior orders (the “Prior Orders”) granting exemptive relief to launch...more
Yesterday the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) filed with the New York Department of State a revised draft of its proposed regulations governing hydraulic fracturing in the state....more
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