WASHINGTON – In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM-ES) will hold its quarterly online oil and gas lease sale September 21, 2017. The sale will include six parcels…

Request for Information (RFI) Begins Multi-Year Evaluation Process to Engage Public, States, & Tribes WASHINGTON – At an Energy Week event hosted by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, President Donald J. Trump announced that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has…

DENVER – In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 10 parcels totaling 1,122 acres in Royal Gorge Field Office and the U.S. Forest Service’s Pawnee National Grassland at its…

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo announced new agreement in principal to suspend antidumping and countervailing duties against Mexican sugar imports into the United States. “We have gotten the Mexican side to agree…

Restrictions on fee setting violate federal antitrust rules, agency alleges The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint against the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisal Board, alleging that the group is unreasonably restraining price competition for appraisal services in Louisiana, contrary…

EAST LANSING – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is announcing what is likely the final opportunity for Michigan farmers to receive 2017 conservation funds. Funding remains for several 2017 conservation initiatives and farmers have until June 16 to submit their…

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the final determinations of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) investigations, finding that imports of steel reinforcement bar (rebar) from Japan and Turkey have been sold in the U.S. market at unfair prices,…

President of the United States Donald Trump and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping agreed at their Mar-a-Lago meeting to advance U.S. - China economic cooperation with a 100-day action plan under the framework of the U.S.…

Data on the Fourth Quarter and Annual 2016 GDP by State released today by the Department of Commerce showed some states’ gross domestic product (GDP) to have been impeded by the policies of the Obama Administration, especially in the energy…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an emergency court order to freeze assets in two brokerage accounts used last week to reap more than $1 million in alleged insider trading profits in connection with a merger announcement by telecommunications…

WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has approved a $22 million coal lease on the Greens Hollow tract in central Utah to Canyon Fuel Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Bowie Resource Partners, LLC. Coal mining in…

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has issued "Credit Risk Trends and Supervisory Expectation Highlights," which appears in the Winter 2016 issue of Supervisory Insights. The article identifies trends in credit risk and emphasizes to bankers and examiners that now…