President Obama’s forthcoming push to seat three judges on an influential bench holds major implications for high-profile fights.

The chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee thinks a Southern Californian electric company misled regulators about the safety of a nuclear power plant.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wants the Justice Department to investigate whether Southern California Edison lied about the state of a closed Pendleton, Calif., facility to avoid a full safety review.

All 45 GOP senators signed a brief calling Obama's appointments an unconstitutional abuse of power.

A lobbying group for corporate CEOs is urging passage of legislation that would force agencies to conduct tougher cost estimates for new regulations.

The Business Roundtable on Tuesday said the bill is “critical” for reforming the regulatory system.

“U.S. businesses, both small and large, are increasingly threatened by the accumulation of regulations over the last several decades,” said Andrew Liveris, the chairman and chief executive of The Dow Chemical Company, in a statement. “It is a vital step; worthy of bipartisan support from both houses of Congress.”

Federal regulators are ready to lift the ban on derivatives trading by credit unions after more than two years of work.

Federal officials say the virtual currency service ran a $6 billion money-laundering operation in the largest prosecution of its type.

The Obama administration is locking in regulations that prevent some federal benefits from being seized when a person has their wages garnished by a court.

The federal government is publishing a rule requiring that wireless providers let users know if they try and send texts to 911 but the messages don't go through.

A few geographic areas currently allow people to send text messages to the emergency service from their mobile phones, but many do not. The new rule will require that texts sent to 911 "bounce back" with an automated message if the local 911 service cannot accept them.

"The rules are adopted with the goal of reducing the risk of individuals sending text messages to 911 during an emergency and mistakenly believing that 911 authorities had received it," the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says in the rule to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday. 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the public comment period on draft gasoline and vehicle emissions rules that the refining industry alleges the EPA is ramming through without enough input.

The agency is extending the comment period by 18 days — from June 13 until July 1 — on draft rules that will force refiners to sharply cut the sulfur content of gasoline.

The EPA unveiled the rules in late March, but published them just last week in the Federal Register, a step that formally opened the comment period.

The extension announced Tuesday wasn't enough to satisfy the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group that opposes the rules and says the formal comment period should be 90 days.