Colorado passes marijuana proposition, Californians reject GMO labeling regulation, and more.
- President Barack Obama won his bid for reelection and called for “leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together.”
- Voters in California voted against a measure to require food manufacturers to label genetically modified organisms. See related The Regulatory Review essay.
- Colorado’s Amendment 64 which legalizes at the state level some limited marijuana possession and use, but the taxing and regulation of the market has yet to be developed.
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved fuel waivers for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York as a response to shortages in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that investigators found the New England Compounding Center, the facility linked to a recent meningitis outbreak, has other issues of bacterial contamination.
- State tax agencies are on “high alert” after a cyber attack on the South Carolina Department of Revenue resulted in the theft of personal information for millions of residents.
- The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) upheld tariffs against the Chinese solar industry.
- AT&T and the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reached a settlement over allegations that AT&T accidentally forced certain customers to enroll in data plans.
- The Pennsylvania Department of Environment Protection (DEP) revealed that a report on the effects of fracking omitted data on toxins in drinking water in the southwestern region of the state.
- The Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority conducted an investigation of a fault line beneath Japan’s only nuclear reactor.
