The federal government has withdrawn a proposed North Atlantic right whale protection rule that would have expanded requirements for large vessels to slow down. The rule, which was years in the making ...

The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...

A coalition of health and environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the rescinding of a ...

It was one of the most popular consumer protection rules — and also one of the shortest surviving. The "Click to Cancel" rule was finalized by the Federal Trade Commission to great acclaim on October ...

Q: In your July 21 column, "The fate of consumer-protection rules," you wrote, "It will be a year until the president's immediate-repeal directive can take effect, and it will probably be another year ...