Washington

Environmental, social and governance issues are a ripe debate among Republican states who oppose federal efforts they say are overly political.

Proposed guidelines for federal tax credits could undermine the effort to build a clean hydrogen market, critics say.

Efforts at every level to respond to the growing problem of extreme heat are beginning to reshape how state and local governments think about emergency management.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority adds Morgan Stanley to the growing list of firms charged with mark-up and mark-down failures on municipal securities transactions.

The state's year-old rules ban broker-dealers and investment advisors from using non-financial criteria in investment strategies.

A new classification scheme would allow market participants, both on the buy and sell sides, to correctly identify the source and nature of credit risk in their holdings and to aggregate such risk into meaningful sectors that share common risk drivers.

It was a busy week for the nation's only publicly funded high-speed train project, which named a new CEO and debuted electric Caltrain cars following the Republican bill that aims to derail the "expensive mess."

The Federal Aviation Administration's fourth round of funding through the Airport Improvement Program covers 320 grants in 46 states.

Treasury's warning "would be absurd if it wasn't so serious," opined the NSSF, the firearm industry trade association.

Grant programs give the administration a degree of control over which projects get funded, similar to earmarks.