Two federal agencies recently released a joint Request for Information ("RFI") in the latest in a series of concrete steps to meet the Biden Administration's goal to achieve 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity...

On September 29, 2021, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing entitled "Protecting Consumer Privacy."

In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden declared that he wants to: "strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, and demand tech companies...

Yesterday, Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced an updated version of the "Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act" (Kids PRIVCY Act)...

The bill closely resembles the Colorado Privacy Act, with a few notable additions.

On January 27, 2022, the FCC adopted a NPRM that would require ISPs to display labels disclosing certain service information, including prices, introductory rates, data allowances, broadband speeds, and network management practices.

On the heels of the FTC's opposition to Lockheed Martin's acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne and Lockheed's termination of the deal, the Department of Defense (DoD) released a report...

Late last week, the Supreme Court indicated that it intends to review a challenge by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to federal limits on the use of post-election contributions...

On June 17, FERC took two actions intended to facilitate greater coordination with and between state regulators on electric transmission policy and development.

In putative privacy class action Hodges v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, involving Comcast's privacy and data-collection practices, Comcast moved to compel arbitration based on its subscriber agreement.

The Department of Justice's FARA Unit released several new advisory opinions today interpreting the Foreign Agents Registration Act and its regulations.

This is the fifth in a series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, "Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity", issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021...

On February 14, 2023, Covington & Burling LLP ("Covington") filed its opposition to the SEC's administrative subpoena in connection with its investigation into possible violations...

While much of the Senate Judiciary Committee's meeting next Thursday, February 3, will focus on the pending Supreme Court nomination, the Committee is still scheduled to mark up and vote on the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) ...

In a recent order, FERC pulled back, for now, its decision to sharply limit the ability of retail regulators to prohibit distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators from bidding retail customer...

President Biden's American Jobs Plan (AJP) sets an ambitious goal of "achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035." To accomplish this, the AJP proposes significant investments...

In 2020 alone, the United States suffered 22 separate extreme weather and climate-related disasters that each caused at least $1 billion in damages, for a total of more than $100 billion in losses.

On December 22, 2021, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced the Fiscal Year 2021 transaction figures for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program...

Last month, the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) held its inaugural ministerial in Pittsburgh: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo

On January 18, 2022, a New Jersey bill which prohibits employers from making use of tracking devices in vehicles operated by employees without providing written notice was passed into law.