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Admin April 22, 2025
The Trump Administration appears poised to recommend the complete elimination of the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in its upcoming Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal, according to a recently ...
Admin April 22, 2025
President Trump has issued another Executive Order (EO) on regulatory reform. This on...
Admin April 22, 2025
In the past week, both Maryland and Massachusetts have announced delays in state implementation of the California Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which requires truck and engine manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) and near-ZEVs through 2035. These are two of...
Admin April 22, 2025
The Chief of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Medical Programs Division has confirmed that the agency is working with states to implement the electronic integration of Medical Examiner's Certificates into the CDL Information System. To date, nine states (Alabama, Delaware,...
Admin April 16, 2025
President Trump has issued another Executive Order (EO) seeking to protect American energy production from overreach b...
Admin April 16, 2025
NEFI submitted formal comments to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) this week in response to Notice 2025-10, which outlines the U.S Treasury Department's approach to implementing...
Admin April 16, 2025
UPDATE: President Trump suspended all "reciprocal" tariff rates above 10% for 90 days effective 12:01AM Eastern on April 10, 2025. All countries, except for China, Canada and Mexico, will be subject to a base rate of 10%. Note that Canada and Mexico remain unaffected by these recipr...
Admin April 10, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has eliminated all staff responsible for administering the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) as part of a broader restructuring that has cut approximately 20,000 jobs—25% of the department's wor...
Admin April 10, 2025
In a significant move underscoring its commitment to renewable liquid heating fuels, NEFI sent a letter to Lee Zeldin, the new Administrator of the U.S....
Admin April 10, 2025
The Senate Parliamentarian has told Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) that waivers issued by EPA under the Clean Air Act are not subject to recission through the Congressional Review Act. If the Senate accepts this opinion, then it would not be able to rescind the waivers issued to CARB. The EPA w...
Admin April 01, 2025
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release obligated funding under ...
Admin April 01, 2025
NEFI and a coalition of more than 80 Main Street businesses, operating in every industry and community in America, sent a ...
Admin March 25, 2025
Last week, NEFI joined 137 stakeholders from across the country in the energy, agricultural and transportation sectors on a letter&n...
Admin March 25, 2025
Bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives and Senate to repeal the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant waivers to California allowing the state to impose more stringent emissions requirements than under federal law. The Clean Air Act generally...
Admin March 18, 2025
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a series of 31 major deregulatory actions...