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Transportation Regulation Reforms - U.S. DOT Seeks Public Comment by May 5

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The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking public comment on opportunities to reform transportation regulations.  The comment period ends next week. This effort is part of President Trump’s “Ten for One” regulatory...more

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CMS Releases Fiscal Year 2026 IPPS and LTCH Proposed Rule

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 11, 2025, issued the proposed fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTCH) Rule...more

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Executive Order Continues Focuses on Anticompetitive Regulations

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On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order, titled “Reducing Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers” (the EO), directing federal agencies to identify and rescind or modify anticompetitive regulations. The EO...more

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What’s Happening at the SEC?

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Hello, this is Dave Lynn, and I’m a partner in Goodwin’s Capital Markets practice and chair of the firm’s Public Company Advisory practice. This is New Directions, a series of discussions about the impact and trajectory of...more

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Treasury issues final rule to eliminate several regulations

On April 15, the Treasury issued a direct final rule to eliminate several regulations or portions of regulations it deemed unnecessary in response to an Executive Order 14219 directing agencies to pursue deregulation. The...more

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FTC Launches Public Inquiry – Anticompetitive Regulations on the Chopping Block

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On April 9, President Trump issued an Executive Order instructing agency heads, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Attorney General, to complete a review of all regulations subject...more

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FY 2026 Proposed Rules Are Out! Overview of the IPPS Proposed Rule

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Last Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officially launched the health policy community into reg season, releasing in one fell swoop all the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare proposed regulations for...more

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Trump Executive Order Requires FERC, Other Agencies to Add Sunset Rule into Regulations

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled "Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy" that directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and three other federal agencies to...more

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Clean Air Act Rulemakings Don't Follow the Normal Rules – Just Ask the Supreme Court

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Every law student learns that the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) outlines the default rules for how federal agencies propose and finalize regulations and how courts review them. But for many significant actions under the...more

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The Future of EPA's Risk Management Program May Be Found in History

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced it would reconsider the 2024 Risk Management Program ("RMP") rule....more

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Trump Issues Executive Order for Deregulation

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President Donald J. Trump, in December 2017, discussed the number of regulations eliminated in his first Administration’s “far-reaching regulatory reform,” known as the “two-for-one rule.” Eleven months earlier, Trump had...more

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Cannabis Rescheduling: ALJ Cancels Upcoming Hearings on Proposed Rulemaking

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Hearings on the merits of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) proposed cannabis rescheduling, initially set to begin this month, have been cancelled. The preliminary hearing period has been littered with accusations that the...more

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End to EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data Reporting for Now…

On February 10, 2020, in National Women’s Law Center v. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) collection of gender...more

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SEC Disclosure Alert: Key Performance Metrics, Financial Reporting and Sustainability

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On January 30, 2020, the SEC issued guidance on the use of key performance metrics for public companies discussing their financial results and proposed amendments to certain financial reporting requirements. The published...more

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SEC’s Proposed Amendments to Financial Disclosure Requirements in Regulation S-K and New Guidance on Metrics in MD&A

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On January 30, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its proposal to amend certain financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K for the purpose of eliminating duplicative disclosures and...more

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SEC Proposal To Modernize MD&A Disclosures and Guidance on MD&A Performance Metrics

On Jan. 30, 2020, the SEC proposed amendments to modernize Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Proposes Amendments To Enhance MD&A Disclosures and Issues New MD&A Interpretative Guidance

The SEC issued documents on January 30, 2020, regarding management discussion and analysis (MD&A) and other disclosures. ...more

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Feds Propose Overhaul of Environmental Reviews for Controversial Projects

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The Trump Administration is proposing significant revisions to the implementing regulations of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) in an overhaul effort that the Administration is touting as a “modernization”...more

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Trump Administration Releases Proposed Revisions to Environmental Review Regulations 

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Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced its long-awaited release of updates to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation regulations (Regulations)....more

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White House to Ease Environmental Permits with Proposed Revisions to NEPA

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On January 9, 2020, the White House issued a proposal to substantially revise the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). The proposed changes, the most significant to NEPA in more than four decades, could result in a...more

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NLRB Scales Back ‘Ambush Election’ Rule

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On December 18, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board’s (Board or NLRB) published a final rule—effective on April 16, 2020—which modifies the 2015 so-called “ambush election” rules. The final rule will lengthen the...more

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2020 Changes To NLRB Representation Election Rules—Heralding The End to ‘Ambush Elections’

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The National Labor Relations Board recently announced significant changes to its rules regarding Representation Elections.  The new rules undo many of the controversial 2014 modifications made by the Obama Board, as discussed...more

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SEC proposes simplification of derivatives rules for closed-end, other funds

The SEC voted to propose a rule designed to enhance the regulation of the use of derivatives by registered investment companies, including closed-end funds, as well as mutual funds, ETFs and business development companies....more

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NYDFS Student Lending Initiative

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New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent, Linda A. Lacewell, recently wrote an Opinion Article in the New York Daily News, addressing the student lending industry. According to Lacewell, the Trump...more

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State AGs urge CFPB not to change overdraft rule and to consider its expansion

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24 state attorneys general, the D.C. attorney general, and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection have sent a joint comment letter to the CFPB urging it not to make any changes to the Regulation E...more

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