The government will ask the Prudential Regulation Authority, which regulates the biggest banks and insurance companies, to look at ways of strengthening rules on blocking deferred bonuses and pensions at bailed-out banks.
But in return for the support they've given Democrats during the past election cycle, environmentalists also said they expect a number of policy victories, including allowing the EPA to finish work strengthening rules on polluters, making progress on climate change, and continuing to shift the country toward clean energy and away from fossil fuels.
A bill doubling the maximum fines that pipeline operators face for violations easily cleared the House and Senate this week, along with other provisions intended to strengthen rules on oil and gas pipeline safety that critics have faulted as weak.
A bill doubling the maximum fines that pipeline operators face for safety violations easily cleared the House and Senate this week along with other provisions intended to strengthen rules on oil and gas pipeline safety that critics have faulted as weak.
HOUSTON — A year and a half after the federal government strengthened rules on the documents needed to enter the country, millions of people are still being allowed to enter without passports or other hard-to-forge identification cards, a government audit has found.
Federal and state officials have already taken steps to reduce such losses: Last year, the state of Massachusetts passed a new law that strengthens rules on monitoring and repairing leaks, and the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new rules to further stem methane emissions across the country. .
In addition to banning Lasix, the Stronach Group said it would strengthen rules on a variety of issues including legal painkillers, anabolic steroids and shock wave therapy.
On Nov. 27, Peña Nieto made a national address in which he vowed to strengthen rule of law and policing in the country.
Duflot suggested the answer is to bring more women into politics by strengthening the rules on parity by making the fines levied against parties who do not conform even higher.
Enforcing some logical safety protections for instance, by strengthening existing rules on speed and weight, and, perhaps, introducing a manufacturing standard to give the silent bikes an artificial hum might curb the mayhem while allowing a low-carbon transportation system to endure safely.
Enforcing some logical safety protections — for instance, by strengthening existing rules on speed and weight, and, perhaps, introducing a manufacturing standard to give the silent bikes an artificial hum — might curb the mayhem while allowing a low-carbon transportation system to endure safely.
