Tag: regulatory

March 1, 2024

“I think [the IRA] is going to be a little bit like Obamacare,” Whitehouse said. “To be a Republican you had to hate Obamacare, and you had to say that you wanted to repeal Obamacare, until a certain tipping point […]

February 28, 2024

IBM is urging lawmakers and federal agencies to police deepfakes and other synthetic content generated by artificial intelligence ahead of the 2024 presidential election, in order to maintain election security, artist protection and privacy. Announced on Wednesday, the tech behemoth […]

November 21, 2023

“PFAS contamination is of growing concern around the world,” says ASTM member William Lipps, general manager, government and regulatory business development/international standards development, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. “ASTM’s water committee (D19) has developed two methods for PFAS in water (D7979 and […]

August 22, 2023

The writer Lewis Carroll famously said, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.” Well, the road the utility industry is currently on is perhaps the bumpiest and most circuitous one it has ever […]

July 25, 2023

A proposed Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rule would expand the definition of Light Sport Aircraft. The Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification rule would put performance safety standards on larger aircraft and would expand the type of aircraft sport pilots can […]

December 8, 2021

Today, to strengthen the role of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in advancing greater use of low-carbon renewable fuels, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a package of actions setting biofuels volumes for years 2022, 2021, and 2020, and introducing […]

September 30, 2021

The energy industry has been going through a revolution, and more and more businesses are looking to transition from non-renewable fossil fuel energy sources such as coal and oil to renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydroelectric energy. There […]

December 18, 2018

California regulators have committed the state to ending fossil fuel use for its roughly 12,000-strong transit bus fleet by 2040, another long-term commitment to reducing the state’s carbon emissions that’s already being driven by the economics of electrifying transit and […]

January 11, 2017

This week, the House is expected to take up for consideration the Commodity End-User Relief Act of 2017. The measure, H.R. 238, is supported by the American Public Power Association. In a Jan. 10 letter to House Agriculture Committee Chairman […]