23 Apr, 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...
05 Apr, 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...
05 Apr, 2024 Another Opportunity to Shape Government AI Acquisitions By Nicole Vele On Monday, April 1, 2024, the Department of the Air Force posted a request for information (RFI) for its Advanced Battle Management...
01 Apr, 2024 Seize the Opportunity to Shape the Future of Federal AI Acquisitions By Nicole Vele While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, the government is just beginning to implement some parameters for the...
29 Mar, 2024 New OMB Policy Sets Guidelines for Managing Risks Associated with Federal Procurement of AI By Nicole Vele On Thursday, March 28, 2024, The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a new policy—Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk...
29 Mar, 2024 HPAI Has Dairy on Edge By David Crass This week, USDA confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy herds in Texas, Kansas and New Mexico,...
29 Mar, 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...
28 Mar, 2024 While SEC Passes on Scope 3, Agriculture Voluntary Carbon Markets Gain Traction By David Crass It has been a busy time in the carbon market space for the livestock and agriculture industries. Earlier this month, the SEC finalized...
25 Mar, 2024 DHS Plans to Enhance its AI Procurement Strategy in 2024 By Nicole Vele In its recently released 2024 AI Roadmap, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) discusses its commitment to the safe, secure, and...
05 Mar, 2024 DC Circuit Vacates EPA's SIP Call on Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Emissions By Todd Palmer Mechanical things occasionally break and sometimes do not work as designed despite best a company's best efforts. This seemingly...
22 Jan, 2024 Be Aware! The Federal Trade Commission is Watching By Sarah Helton Developing AI models requires a lot of data, so some companies use "model-as-a-service" providers to make models available through an...
20 Dec, 2023 A Sea Change for Cephalopods: U.S. Proposes New Welfare Standards for Preclinical Drug Development By Karl Nobert Earlier this year, in a groundbreaking move, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research released a request for...