On July 22, the UK Business and Trade Secretary has announced over £100 million of government-industry funding that will be delivered through the Aerospace Technology Institute Programme...

Restaurants and retail stores operating in California will likely need to find a new source for receipt paper as a result of a Proposition 65 complaint filed on April 3, 2025, in San Francisco...

California's Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54) is barreling forward and on track to incrementally reduce plastic packaging...

On May 24, 2024 the EU adopted the Corporate Due Diligence Directive, mandating large companies to address human rights and environmental impacts across their value chains.

The UK is considering subsidies for clean energy sectors such as battery production, hydrogen, carbon capture, usage and storage in response to the US Inflation Reduction Act...

A US federal court judge sentenced the founder of Nikola Corp. to four years in prison for his conviction for making false and misleading statements about the company's production...

Glass Half Full: Following a jam-packed July, August recess will arrive a week early for the House this year with votes on three major appropriations bills cancelled for next week. The decision to punt next week's votes...

California is once again stepping out ahead of the Food and Drug Administration and all other states with the California Food Safety Act, banning four chemicals in food— brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate...

On 5 January 2011, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) endorsed for public consultation its draft guidance on risk assessment concerning potential risks from applications of nanoscience and nanotechnologies to food and animal feed.

If you've been reading us a while, you'll know by now that your Steptoe appropriations team is determined to be optimistic.

A Bit of Breathing Room: Last week, we sent a special edition of The Topline to your inbox in light of news that member request deadlines had been announced on a very short...

On Wednesday, Speaker Johnson brought up his six-month continuing resolution (CR) on the House floor. As expected, the bill was ultimately defeated on the floor with...

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Happy New Year, and welcome to the 119th Congress.

Some appropriators are opening their portals for FY26 requests while others have already closed them. Congress is expecting a "skinny" FY26 budget request from the President in April, which will kick off their work.

The White House is pumping the brakes on submitting its rescissions package, which is expected to include nearly $10 billion in cuts to public broadcasting, the State Department, and other federal agencies and programs.

Congress is still waiting on details following the release of the President's "skinny" budget request earlier this month, which called for a 22.6 percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending.

The FY26 appropriations process is in full swing, with agencies submitting budget justifications, committees conducting hearings, and subcommittees marking up legislation.

House appropriators are returning to Washington next week with an eye toward holding the first floor vote of the FY26 appropriations cycle.

The Senate is poised to achieve a key milestone in the appropriations process as Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) moves to assemble the first "minibus" package of the cycle.