WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- The Joint Economic Committee released the following testimony by Will Rinehart, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, from a Nov. 18, 2025, hearing entitled "Frontier Technologies, Industrial Efficiency, and Pro-Innovation Policies": * * * Three years ago this month, OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5 was released. By January 2023, the service had nearly 100 million users, making it the fastest-adopted consumer technology in history. Since then, the pace of innovation   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed to extend a compliance deadline for the closure of certain coal combustion residuals (CCR) surface impoundments. The proposal grants a three-year extension for owners and operators to complete the closure of unlined CCR surface impoundments larger than 40 acres, shifting the deadline from Oct. 17, 2028, to Oct. 17, 2031. This extension aims to promote electric grid reliability by allowing a subset of coal-fired po  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued a direct final rule to eliminate a regulation regarding performance standards for surface mining operations. The action revises federal regulations to rescind an obsolete rule that the Secretary of the Interior suspended in 1992, rendering it inoperative for 33 years. The rule in question, found at 30 CFR 816.101, prescribed time and distance standards for the completi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement revised federal regulations by issuing a direct final rule to rescind fee rates for coal production that expired in 2021. The rule removes obsolete regulatory language related to fees for coal produced for sale, transfer, or use from Oct. 1, 2012, through Sept. 30, 2021. Rates for the period beginning Oct. 1, 2021, and extending through Sept. 30, 2034, are already in effect.   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement took action to remove an inoperative regulation from the Code of Federal Regulations. The department is issuing a direct final rule to rescind obsolete regulations at 30 CFR 700.11(b) concerning the applicability of the Federal regulations implementing the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. The rescission targets a provision that, as enacted in 1977, exempted  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. FD 36284) entitled "Seven County Infrastructure Coalition - Rail Construction and Operation Exemption - In Utah, Carbon, Duchesne, and Uintah Counties, Utah": * * * In December 2021, the Board granted final approval for an exemption sought by the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition (Coalition) to construct and operate a new line of railroad in Utah, subject to c  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee released the following written testimony by Micah A. Christensen, natural resource counsel of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association, from a Nov. 19, 2025, hearing entitled "BLM Land Use Planning Process Under FLPMA." FLPMA is the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. * * * I. Introduction Chairman Lee and Ranking Member Heinrich, thank you for holding a hearing to discuss the planning process under the Federal L  more