The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) recently posted a petition on the White House’s petition website to urge action to prevent the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)…
Motorists accustomed to filling up at gas pumps with vapor-collecting attachments on the nozzles could be in for a change. Those nozzles belong to Stage II vapor-recovery systems, which the…
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and David Vitter (R-La.) have introduced legislation to block an increase in the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline. The bill would…
A bipartisan group of 53 U.S. senators and representatives has introduced legislation that would allow local brick-and-mortar retailers to compete with out-of-state Internet sellers. While brick-and-mortar retailers collect sales taxes…
During his State of the Union address, President Obama called for an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 (indexing it to inflation), sparking numerous debates among…
The Affordable Care Act has just passed a new milestone: All states have committed to what kind of health insurance marketplace, also referred to as an exchange, will be running…
For merchants, accepting credit cards comes with a sense of mystery — they never know what swipe fees they will have to pay for processing that transaction. The Merchants Payments…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and other groups have appealed a D.C. Circuit Court decision rejecting a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) grant of partial waivers for…
The U.S. State Department released a draft supplemental environmental impact (SEIS) assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline last week, suggesting that the project will not have a huge impact on…
On Feb. 22, 2013, NATO filed a supplemental set of comments asking the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products to review the recently approved Potential Tobacco Product Violation Report form and…