Aug 15, 2024 New Study Finds Ultra-Processed Plant-Based Food Can Increase Health Risks By David Crass For years, health advocates have urged a move away from meat-based proteins to plant-based alternatives. But a new study out concludes...
May 14, 2024 USTR Releases Sec. 301 Report and Recs By David Crass Today, the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) released the results of its Sec. 301tariff statutory review, detailing ongoing...
Apr 23, 2024 PFAS CERCLA Designation -- What's Next By David Crass Last week, USEPA Administrator Regan signed the final rule designating PFOA, PFOS and their salts and structural isomers as hazardous...
Apr 05, 2024 FinCEN to Impose Broad AML Obligations on Investment Advisers By Iqan Fadaei For many years, key U.S. anti-money laundering laws (in particular, rules under the Bank Secrecy Act) have applied to financial...
Apr 04, 2024 American Biogas Council Releases Draft Carbon Accounting Methodology By David Crass Congratulations to our friends at ECO Engineers who, on behalf of the American Biogas Council, released for public comment a draft Carbon...
Mar 29, 2024 Congress Reauthorizing Price-Anderson Act is Vote of Confidence for Nuclear By David Crass Last week's activity in Congress to adopt spending packages for the remainder of 2024 included the extension of the Price-Anderson Act to...
Oct 02, 2023 SEC Declines to Impose Civil Penalties for Unregistered Sale of Securities By Iqan Fadaei Kevin Timken Betsy Voter The SEC recently settled charges against an issuer for failing to register the offers and sales of a retail crypto lending product. But...
Oct 02, 2023 SEC Brings Further Actions for Violation of Whistleblower Protection Rule By Iqan Fadaei Betsy Voter Kevin Timken The SEC has brought charges against a private subsidiary of a publicly traded company for using an employee release agreement that...
Oct 02, 2023 SEC Charges Lyft for Failing to Disclose Director's Sale of Pre-IPO Stock By Iqan Fadaei Kevin Timken Betsy Voter Yesterday, the SEC charged Lyft for failing to disclose a board director’s role in a shareholder’s sale of approximately $424 million...
Sep 23, 2023 SEC Charges Virtu. Virtu Suggests Charges are Retaliatory. By Iqan Fadaei Betsy Voter Kevin Timken On September 12, the SEC filed charges against Virtu for allegedly misleading customers about the existence and adequacy of information...
Sep 18, 2023 Advisers Settle SEC Charges Relating to Custody Rule / Form ADV Violations By Iqan Fadaei Betsy Voter Kevin Timken The SEC recently settled charges against five investment advisers to private funds for $500,000 in combined penalties, as part of its...
Jan 06, 2023 Cannabis Bankruptcy Solutions in Canada By David DiGiacomo Since Safe Banking has still not found a way through congress, many in the industry are turning to the Canadian courts as a solution. Our...