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Latest News in Public Policy

  • January 06, 2026

    Ex-EEOC Officials Decry Harassment Guidance Rollback

    A group of former top officials at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday issued a statement criticizing the Trump administration's proposed elimination of guidance on workplace harassment, saying it's an attack on the LGBTQ community and strays from U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

  • January 06, 2026

    DHS Blasts ICE Detainees' Lengthy Conditions Complaint

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is urging an Illinois federal judge to toss a class action claiming federal immigration officials subjected detainees to inhumane conditions at a Chicago-area holding facility, saying the complaint is "unnecessarily long" and otherwise fails to plead valid constitutional or procedural claims.

  • January 06, 2026

    Feds Sue Calif. Cities To Extinguish Natural Gas Bans

    The Trump administration is going after two cities in California over building codes that ban natural gas infrastructure in newly constructed buildings, alleging in a lawsuit Monday that these local rules "impose crushing costs" on Californians and run afoul of federal law.

  • January 06, 2026

    US Removal Of Maduro Won't Curb Energy Cos.' Caution

    U.S. oil and gas companies will need significant legal and regulatory assurances that any new investment in Venezuela will be shielded from political instability before heeding President Donald Trump's call to fortify the country's floundering oil and gas industry.

  • January 06, 2026

    Vape Interests Look To 5th Circ. To Halt Miss. E-Cig Law

    A coalition of vaping interests is asking the Fifth Circuit to revive its lawsuit seeking to end a Mississippi law that blocks the sale of synthetic nicotine products, the same parties that are also moving forward with similar efforts at the Sixth Circuit.

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