Regulation/Government Policy

As Europe and the U.S. push to ramp up development and sales of electric vehicles, researchers are concerned that cybersecurity is being neglected. In the worst of cases, hackers could engineer blackouts and do damage to entire electric…

Oil and gas companies would need to spend just a small fraction of their earnings on minimizing methane releases to have an outsize impact on curbing climate-altering greenhouse-gas emissions, but action has been lacking, the International…

Doctors and pharmacists receive lengthy pamphlets for all prescription drugs that can stretch as long as a dining-room table. Efforts to go digital in this heavily regulated industry are finally making headway, offering drugmakers the…

Companies that list wide pay ranges in cybersecurity job descriptions risk setting false expectations and kindling unrest among existing staff. New York last year joined a handful of other U.S. cities in mandating salaries be included in…

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.—Nikki Haleyfrequently questions the use of public money to help corporations as she campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, but her tone was significantly different when it came to interests in South…

Big companies are winning appeals to overturn regulatory decisions that allege they violated European privacy rules, potentially carving out a path for more businesses to challenge similar sanctions.Courts in the U.K., Spain, Italy and…

From car dealerships to political-action committees, organizations big and small are striking endorsement deals with college athletes—known as name, image, likeness arrangements—that despite marketer enthusiasm remain a largely untested…

Ericsson AB has agreed to pay $206.7 million in a foreign bribery settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, which found the telecommunications company had breached an earlier deal.…

McDonald’s Corp. board members didn’t violate their duty to shareholders in the handling of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, a Delaware court said, ruling that the directors’ response was legally…

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