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On Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) endangerment finding for greenhouse gases (GHGs) was published in the Federal Register.

On April 16, 2008, President Bush spoke out on the climate change debate. In a Rose Garden statement, the president discussed the necessity of climate change legislation, but he did not openly endorse a cap-and-trade program as a way to combat global warming.

A California jury returned a verdict of $169 million against three former IndyMac Bancorp Inc. executives.

Today the federal government released final rules for the formation and operation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) under the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently announced that three physician-owned companies entered into a $7.3 million Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) settlement agreement to settle allegations that they violated the anti-kickback laws by soliciting and receiving payments from hospitals in exchange for patient referrals.

A recent clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live illustrates (in albeit exaggerated fashion) the vast distance the Obama administration still has to go to inform the American public of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Human resource specialists are caught in a never-ending battle to keep costs down while providing competitive benefits to company employees.

Two recent developments, one under the Affordable Care Act legislation and one from academia, may be of interest to employers as they formulate strategies related to wellness and tobacco use in their employee populations.

When he signed the Dodd-Frank financial "reform" legislation into law, President Obama told a White House audience: "There will be no more tax-funded bailouts-period."

Minutes before a scheduled vote on Richard Cordray’s appointment as the Director of the CFPB that many thought would lead to Harry Reid invoking the so-called "nuclear option" of a change to Senate filibuster rules, Senator Reid announced a deal that inches the Upper Chamber back from the brink and clears the way for an up or down vote on Mr. Cordray’s appointment.

On September 6, the CFPB Monitor reported that the CFPB and FTC filed amicus brief in a Seventh Circuit case, Delgado v. Capital Management Services, LP, arguing that a debt collector’s offer to settle credit card debt violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not disclose that the debt was time-barred.

Syria has of late dominated the attention of headline writers and the chattering class. No doubt many people are delighted at this development.

Judge Richard Leon, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a memorandum opinion today that is arguably good for retailers, consumers and small businesses.

The Treasury Department’s looting of Fannie and Freddie has finally caught the attention of the New York Times.

In a June 2012 article published in The American Banker, we noted the that the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("SIGTARP") had taken an expansive view of its jurisdiction in investigating offenses affecting financial institutions.

The reach of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is not limited to publicly traded companies.

The extended "transition period" for covered entities and business associates to comply with the new business associate agreement requirements is drawing to a close.