Environmental regulators announced on Monday they will ease emissions standards for cars and trucks, saying that a timeline put in place by President Barack Obama was not appropriate and set standards "too high."

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Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. launched a new initiative to make a standard for personal and financial data security.

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A study has found about 97 percent of Frederick County's curb ramps and 13 percent of its sidewalk miles fail to meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards.

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WASHINGTON — Industry groups and privacy advocates on Thursday were near agreement on voluntary guidelines for mobile apps that should make it easier for consumers to know what personal information is getting sucked from their smartphone or tablet and passed ...

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As a Baltimore County lawmaker and statewide environmental advocate drove a demonstrative lap around a Charles Village block in an electric car Wednesday, whatever sound made by the Nissan Leaf was drowned by louder vehicles rumbling south on St. Paul Street.

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WASHINGTON — The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has renewed calls for stricter oversight of Wall Street banks. Two years after Congress passed an overhaul of financial rules, many of those changes have yet to be finalized. JPMorgan’s ...

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Maryland is not meeting federal ozone standards and isn’t likely to do so without federal policies to address pollution blowing in from other states. That’s the word from a new clean-air report issued Monday by the Maryland Department of the ...

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WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday laid out new standards for criminal plea bargains, saying defense lawyers must do a competent job advising and informing their clients of prosecutors’ offers of less prison time for convictions and guilty ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decision late last month that state-law failure-to-warn claims against generic drug makers are preempted by federal law — handed down just two years after the Court held that brand-name drug makers could face such suits ...

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