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HHS Issues a Request for Information on Deregulation and Innovation: Considerations for Legal and Compliance Teams

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On May 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its Request for Information (RFI) “Ensuring Lawful Regulation and Unleashing Innovation To Make American Healthy Again,” which HHS describes as...more

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OFCCP Takes Additional Steps to Unravel Key Affirmative Action Programs: A 5-Step Plan for Federal Contractors

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Federal contractors should stay tuned as the Trump administration continues to make big changes impacting contract compliance. Just yesterday, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published proposed...more

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Déjà vu? FWS Solicits Feedback to Update Section 10(a) of the ESA

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On Monday, June 9, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) opened a short, 30-day public comment period soliciting information and comments to, “improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness” of Section 10(a) take...more

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HHS, FDA Issue Request for Information to Support Administration's Deregulatory Agenda

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Request for Information (RFI) on May 13, 2025, titled "Ensuring Lawful Regulation and Unleashing Innovation to...more

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Trump Administration Initiates Section 232 Investigation into Pharmaceuticals

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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it has initiated a Trade Expansion Act of 1962 Section 232 investigation to determine whether imports of pharmaceutical products and ingredients pose a national security risk to...more

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FTC Issues RFI on Anti-Competitive Regulations

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On April 14, 2025, following President Trump’s recently issued executive order addressing regulatory barriers to competition, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Request for Public Comment Regarding Reducing...more

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Workplace Immigration Update: March 10 Edition

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The initial months of President Donald Trump’s second term have seen the administration enact several significant new immigration policies that have immediate implications for employers across the United States. Understanding...more

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Biden’s OSHA Pushes Heat Illness Prevention Rule Close to the Finish Line

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On January 14, 2025, just six days before the transition from the Biden Administration to the second Trump Administration, OSHA closed the books on collecting public comments on the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more

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USITC Opens Investigation into Economic Impact of Section 301 and Section 232 Tariffs

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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) announced in a notice issued on May 5, 2022, the commencement of a retrospective investigation of the economic impacts of Section 301 and Section 232 tariffs on the most...more

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OFCCP Announces Rescission of 2020 Rule Expanding the Religious Exemption Under Executive Order 11246

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On November 9, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a proposed rule rescinding its December 2020 Final Rule broadening the religious exemption from Executive Order 11246’s...more

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White House Takes Next Step At Wiping Out Trump-Era Gig Economy Rule

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We knew it had been coming, but the Biden recently made it official: the Department of Labor announced it wants to rescind the gig economy rule that was originally crafted under President Trump’s tenure and was about to make...more

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DOL May Rescind Final Rules on Independent Contractor, Joint Employer Status

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed on March 11, 2021, withdrawing the independent contractor and joint employer final rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The independent contractor final rule provides...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Proposed Rule Revisions for NEPA

In another step in President Trump's ongoing efforts to relax environmental restrictions impacting economic development, on January 10, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality published its proposed rulemaking to update...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Proposed NEPA Regulation Overhaul: Next Steps and What Matters for Public Agencies

Public Comments Due March 10 - The White House Council on Environmental Quality issued a proposal to significantly overhaul, for the first time in 40 years, the regulations for implementing the National Environmental...more

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USFWS proposes to codify Trump Administration position on MBTA

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Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released a pre-publication version of its long-awaited update to regulations governing Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) implementation (Proposed Regulations)....more

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Trump Proposes Rules to Expedite Infrastructure Projects

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On January 9, 2020, in one of the more significant environmental proposals of the current administration, President Trump’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed updates to its regulations for implementing the...more

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NEPA Overhaul? CEQ Proposes Significant Changes to Federal Environmental Review

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The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a division of the Executive Office of the President, today published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would make significant changes to its regulations...more

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BIS Publishes a Temporary Unilateral Control on a Type of Machine Learning Software for Automating Analyses of Geospatial Imagery...

Key Points - On January 6, 2020, BIS published an interim final rule to add a new worldwide (minus Canada) unilateral export control on a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training Deep...more

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Trump Administration Proposes Transparency Rule for Group Health Plans and Insurers

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On November 15, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), unveiled a proposed rule (scheduled to be published on November...more

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EPA Proposes Rulemaking to Modify Methane Regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has proposed rulemaking revisions to the regulation of methane and volatile organic compounds ("VOCs"). The proposed rulemaking was published in the Federal Register on...more

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NLRB Does What Every Watcher Expected It To Do: Declares That Teaching And Research Assistants Are Not Employees…And Does So In A...

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In the latest volley across the partisan line in the saga of whether college teaching and research assistants can unionize, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a proposed rule that would deny the ability to...more

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EPA Proposes to Narrow Water Quality Certification Authority Under the Clean Water Act

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The Environmental Protection Agency issued a 163-page proposed rule on August 9, 2019, to clarify the substantive and procedural requirements for water quality certifications under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act....more

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How Employers Should Respond to the Trump Administration’s Proposed Overtime Rule

The proposed changes seek to formally rescind the Obama Administration’s 2016 Final Rule, which more than doubled the minimum salary levels for exemption for overtime requirements. Instead, the Trump Administration proposes...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Overtime Rule

On Thursday March 7, 2019, the United States Department of Labor ("U.S. DOL") proposed a new "overtime rule," which would raise the minimum salary level for employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act's "white collar"...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HHS Proposes Rule to Eliminate Safe Harbor for PBM Drug Rebates

On February 6, 2019, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the “OIG”) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that, if made final in its...more

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