WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Attorneys General in 21 states submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expressing concerns about the agency's Draft Guidance for Industry on flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems premarket applications. The letter highlights escalating risks posed to youth by flavored e-cigarettes and urge the FDA to reconsider its regulatory approach aimed at balancing youth protection with adult smoking cessation benefits. The letter strongly critiques the Draft Guidance, which proposes that ce more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Six former officials from the U.S. Department of Labor has submitted a public comment letter to the Employee Benefits Security Administration opposing the agency's Proposal on "Fiduciary Duties in Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives." The letter outlines concerns that the proposal would weaken the longstanding prudence standard established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, potentially jeopardizing the retirement benefits of workers, retirees, and their families. The former officials, who  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- A group of 73 public health, medical, civil rights and community advocacy organizations submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration addressing the agency's Draft Guidance on "Flavored Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Premarket Applications - Considerations Related to Youth Risk." The letter outlines strong concerns about the FDA's proposed approach to regulating flavored e-cigarettes, emphasizing risks to youth and the adequacy of scientific evidence supporting the guidance. The comment  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- A group of nine advocacy organizations submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the agency's draft guidance on flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems premarket applications. The letter critiques the FDA's "Flavored Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Premarket Applications - Considerations Related to Youth Risk; Draft Guidance for Industry." The organizations highlighted concerns over the role of flavored ENDS in youth nicotine product uptake, emphasizing that rising you more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Michael Ewens, the David L. and Elsie M. Dodd professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, branded as Columbia Business School, New York, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Labor regarding its proposed rule on fiduciary duties in selecting designated investment alternatives, urging the department to adopt safeguards for retirement-plan investments in private assets and warning that existing benchmarking, valuation and disclosure frameworks may not adequately protect  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Adam J. Levitin, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Finance at Georgetown University Law Center, submitted a public comment letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency opposing both the agency's proposed rule on national bank non-interest charges and fees and its order preempting the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, arguing that the actions exceed the OCC's statutory authority, are procedurally defective, raise constitutional concerns and would ultimately mislead consumers. The professor argues t more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury advocating for the incorporation of the Legal Entity Identifier and its digital form, the verifiable LEI, into the regulatory regime governing permitted payment stablecoin issuers. GLEIF emphasized that the integration of the LEI system would enhance transparency, facilitate fraud detection, and promote innovation within the stablecoin market. GLEIF, a nonprofit  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Finn Dobkin, a senior policy analyst at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, submitted a public comment letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration arguing that future revisions to the North Atlantic Right Whale vessel strike reduction rule should combine stronger scientific targeting with technology-driven enforcement while incorporating a broader assessment of economic and environmental impacts. The current vessel speed rule, established by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Servic more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Anna M. Powell, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, submitted a public comment letter to the Office of Management and Budget opposing proposed revisions to federal grant-making regulations, arguing that the changes would weaken peer review, expand political influence over funding decisions, increase administrative burdens, restrict scientific collaboration and disproportionately harm women's health research. The letter criticizes the pro more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Michelle DiVita, a senior associate attorney at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Chicago, Illinois, submitted a public comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to prioritize guidance and regulatory revisions affecting advanced manufacturing tax credits, credit monetization rules, research tax credits and taxpayer protections, arguing that current guidance creates uncertainty, suppresses domestic investment and departs from statutory requirements. The law firm's top recommendation centers on revisin more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Arturo Magidin, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, submitted a public comment letter to the Office of Management and Budget urging the agency to withdraw or substantially revise proposed federal grant-making regulations, arguing that the changes would transfer research-funding decisions from scientific experts to political appointees while increasing administrative burdens and undermining the rigor and stability of federally funded research. The letter highlights provisions  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus Food Allergy Research and Resource Program submitted a public comment letter to the Food and Drug Administration addressing food allergen thresholds and their potential applications. The letter followed the agency's virtual public meeting and listening sessions on the topic. The academic group expressed support for risk-based approaches grounded in scientific evidence to improve food allergen safety. They emphasized that thorough allergen management programs are prerequisites for  more ST

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Fabio B. Gaertner, accounting and information systems professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jeffrey L. Hoopes, accounting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, submitted a public comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service urging revisions to proposed Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax regulations to conform adjusted financial statement income to the regular-tax treatment of share-based compensation, arguing that current rules can produce minimum-tax consequences based solely on fl more ST