Sentences with phrase «other federal protections»

Anyone who might need an income - driven plan or other federal protection in the future might want to hold off on refinancing any federal student loans.

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These regulations are handed down from several federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and otProtection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and otprotection, and other areas.

The federal securities laws provide disclosure requirements and other important protections of which investors should be aware.

However, there are many other repayment options and consumer protections for federal student loans.

It has put a pause on plans for tests of Equifax's data protection practices and turned down offers from other federal regulators for help in on - site credit bureau exams.

Last week Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dropped the Obama - era rule, claiming modern mining practices, as well as other state and federal requirements, made the financial responsibility rule superfluous.

While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other federal initiatives have tried to rein in overdraft fees charged to bank customers, the fees remain big business, especially for big banks.

Federal regulation prohibits you from making more than a total of 6 transfers each month to other accounts from a savings or money market account (including transfers to another account for overdraft protection) or to third parties each month by check, through point - of - sale purchase transactions with a banking card, by preauthorized or automatic agreements, telephone, or online.

According to the proposal, the OCC would coordinate with other applicable regulators, such as the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, depending upon the nature of the FinTech company.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other experts talked about the impact of the new federal housing policies on homeownership.

But we also need to ensure that government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission hold companies accountable (especially companies like Facebook who are already subject to a settlement agreement based on previous privacy violations), and we need Congress and other lawmakers to strengthen privacy protections.

Federal regulations prohibit you from making more than a total of six transfers each month to other accounts from a savings or money market account (including transfers to another account for overdraft protection) or to third parties each month by check, through point - of - sales purchase transactions with a banking card, by preauthorized or automatic agreements, by telephone or online.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau noted in a January 2015 letter that federal regulators have repeatedly offered guidance encouraging private lenders to pursue workout arrangements and other relief for borrowers.

In addition, America Express Co. agreed to refund $ 85 million to 250,000 customers and pay $ 27.5 million in civil penalties after the bureau, along with other federal and state regulators, determined numerous violations of consumer protection laws involving credit card marketing and services.

The Environmental Protection Agency is opening internal investigations into Scott Pruitt's $ 50 - a-night condo deal with a lobbyist and other recent allegations, adding to about a dozen federal probes involving...

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

HHS positioned the shift as part of its «major actions to protect conscience rights and life,» including a new proposed rule to better enforce 25 federal protections for health care providers who decline to perform abortions and other services, as well as yesterday's announcement of a new division dedicated to fielding such complaints.

In Obergefell, Kennedy's claim was that although historically the interpretation of a fundamental right to marry has not included same - sex couples, the «referenda, legislative debates, and grassroots campaigns; studies and other writings; and extensive litigation in state and federal courts» has led to an «enhanced understanding» of how the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th amendment contain a right for same - sex couples to marry that was really there all along, though until now unseen.

As one of the most highly regulated food industries in the United States, dairy must comply with regulations issued by multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Commerce, among other state and local regulatory bodies.

As the voice of the flexible packaging industry, FPA works with regulators at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other U.S. regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration to share industry positions and minimize regulatory burden on the flexible packaging industry.

The ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Exam, which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)- Conference for Food Protection (CFP) and is recognized by more federal, state and local jurisdictions than any other food safety certification, including Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa.

By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

As New York state's brewing and distilling industries continue to boom, the farmers who provide one of the key ingredients should be granted access to the same federal protections available in other states, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Other GOP lawmakers have been more vocal in defending last year's federal Stream Protection Rule as one necessary to beat back what they perceive as overreaching regulatory actions, specifically when it comes to protecting the coal industry.

U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn ruled Monday in favor of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, along with 15 other Democratic attorneys general, are petitioning the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to keep up with investigations and not to weaken them.

Federal Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck and New York State DEC Commissoner Basil Seggos joined other government officials in a candid two - hour session with Ezra Prentice residents, who have long suspected oil trains and diesel truck traffic could be responsible for their health issues.

And should other law - enforcement agencies — be they federal, state or local — suggest that police are needed for public safety on or near the wedding site, Steinhaus told Anderson, «it is their responsibility for those agencies to deploy the appropriate number of officers for the safety and protection of the community.»

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.

However, the United States has no federal law outlawing discrimination nationwide other than from federal executive orders which have a more limited scope than from protections through federal legislation.

Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected from risks to their health and environment and that federal laws that protect human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively, among other things.

Cuomo administration officials said that once the state had received permission from the federal government to pursue marijuana as an investigational drug, hospitals would be given the same protections they have for any other research.

And tough new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency on power plant emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still meet its other environmental goals.

The regulation was prompted, federal officials say, by a federal law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which among other things governs the use of medical records and the protection of patient privacy.

Under the new agreement, gray wolves will be delisted in those states that have established suitable protection plans (Idaho and Montana)-- so limited hunting will be allowed there — while federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections will remain in place in the other states (Washington, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming) where gray wolf populations are still in jeopardy.

Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

Just days into the Trump administration, alarm bells are ringing in the scientific community amid confusing and whiplashing reports of gag orders and funding freezes at the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

«We are concerned about reports that federal agencies — including the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — have issued directives to staff that may silence the voices of scientific researchers and others working for the federal government,» said Holt in a statement.

A federal appeals court in Colorado last week vacated a temporary ban on U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block Valley Meat and other aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening.

The latest AAAS analysis of the FY 2016 R&D appropriations bills in place shows how some federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, have been relatively embraced by appropriators this year, while others, such as the Environmental Protection Agency or the U.S. Department of Agriculture, have not.

Yoon said some of the funding made possible by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which includes $ 460 million for community mental health services for states to use, may help other states to create similar programs.

Starting in 1996, when Congress passed the new Food Quality Protection Action with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Amendments, it told EPA to develop a screening program using tests and other scientifically relevant information to determine whether substances have hormonal activity.

In September and December 2014, two federal court rulings prompted by lawsuits filed by the Center and other allies restored federal protections to wolves in Wyoming and in the western Great Lakes states, with the judges in each case finding that in stripping protections for wolves the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act.

Non-military spending includes federal funding for public education, veterans» care, the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, State Department and other programs means that the resulting balance.

NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Education, and nearly every other state, federal, and local government agency contract with for - profit firms to support, provide, and evaluate service delivery.

Removing privacy protection for individual schools in data reports, a protection that does not exist in any other federal statue or regulation.