The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled last week that President Obama’s January 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unconstitutional, thereby throwing into doubt a significant…
A new brief from the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)—SNAP and Public Health: The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programin Improving the Health and Well-Being of Americans—walks readers…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing the 2013 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2). The proposal—announced last…
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is establishing a public docket to obtain comments, supported by scientific evidence, regarding what changes to smokeless tobacco product warnings, if any, “would…
Last week, U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Tobacco Tax Equity Act (S.194), a bill that seeks to make taxes on pipe…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is “strongly considering” petitioning the Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that preserved the EPA’s decision to allow E15 fuel in the marketplace,…
Visa and MasterCard have announced that as a result of a November 2012 federal district court settlement ruling, they will be able to provide merchants in the US and US…
Skimming has become big business, costing banks, retailers, and consumers $18 billion in 2011, the Huffington Post reports. Many of those skimming cases happened at gasoline station pumps, and 66%…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week announced a final rule strengthening the agency’s authority to use administrative detention to prevent potentially unsafe food from reaching the marketplace.…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds convenience store operators of their responsibility to ensure that all store employees are trained to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (previously…