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The Environmental Protection Agency on April 17 issued regulations on natural gas drilling that it says will not only improve air quality but also increase producer profits.
The Bloomberg Government Study, titled “Fracking Emission Rules: EPA, Industry Miss Mark On Costs, Consequences” (subscription required) analyzes available data on the number of wells affected by the rule, compliance costs per well, the volume of fuel captured and the price for which it can be sold. The study finds that the regulation is neither the profit driver EPA claims nor the billion-dollar burden industry has portrayed.
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In January 2013, nearly $55 billion will be sequestered from the defense budget. Find out more about the nature of these cuts as well as how to best prepare for them.
The Bloomberg Government Study titled, “Sequestration Planning: Scenarios and Options for Defense Contractors,” (subscription required) by Defense Analysts Kevin Brancato and Robert Levinson (subscription required), outlines issues to help companies that contract with the federal government prepare for sequestration.
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Though the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act has come and gone, the implications are still being felt across the United States. Understand the impacts of this ruling and position your business accordingly.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 issued its decision regarding legal challenges to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In its ruling in National Federation of Independent Business et al v. Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al, the court upheld virtually the entire law with some limits placed on the expansion of Medicaid. The individual mandate, Medicaid expansion and other provisions impacted are detailed in the BGOV Fact Sheet.
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