Wilmington, Del. – September 16, 2026 -- The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has disqualified law firm HSF Kramer from representing Pleasants Power Station in its Chapter 11 proceedings, sustaining conflict-of-interest objections raised by Omnis Fuel Technologies and the Office of the United States Trustee.

St. Johns County, Fla. – September 16, 2026 -- St. Johns County has built a fiscal contingency plan around estimates showing property-tax revenue could fall by $68.3 million in Fiscal Year 2028, $136.1 million in FY 2029, and $191.6 million in FY 2032 if voters approve Property Tax Amendment 3 on Nov. 3, 2026. The projections, sourced from the Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research, have driven a countywide budget review underway since May.

Arlington, Va. – September 16, 2026 -- Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has projected a 3.2% inflation increase for 2027, up from the 2.7% rise recorded for 2026, according to its newly released 2027 Projected U.S. Tax Rates report.

Washington – September 16, 2026 -- The Transportation Security Administration marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks by launching its Horizon 25 Strategy, a modernization push covering all transportation modes under the Trump administration and Secretary Mullin.

Plymouth, Mich. – – September 16, 2026 -- Esperovax, Inc. has secured a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent Application No. 18/038,673, covering its engineered yeast platform for producing therapeutic proteins directly inside the body.

Cincinnati – September 16, 2026 -- Government inspectors found overcharging at more than one in three Kroger stores examined across nine Ohio jurisdictions, according to a report released this week by the Center for Responsible Food Business (CRFB). Pricing errors favored Kroger nearly three times as often as they favored shoppers.

Stockholm – September 16, 2026 -- Husqvarna Group has become the first robotics company to secure Conditional Approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for foreign-manufactured advanced robotic devices, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for its U.S. expansion.

Dallas – September 16, 2026 -- Toby R. Neugebauer, together with Vicksburg Investments Management LLC and the Melissa A. Neugebauer 2020 Trust, has filed a formal SEC Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposal demanding Fermi Inc. (Nasdaq: FRMI) retain an independent, nationally recognized investment bank to review the full range of extraordinary transactions available to the company, including a full-value sale or majority recapitalization.

Washington – September 16, 2026 -- Seventeen Volunteer Advocates from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will meet with members of Congress from September 16-18 to push for sustained federal funding and pending legislation on suicide prevention, arriving weeks after Congress passed the Youth Poisoning Protection Act (H.R. 1442/S. 289), which now awaits presidential signature.

Clayton, Mo. and The Woodlands, Texas – – September 16, 2026 -- Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) and Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) confirmed that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act has expired, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for their planned merger of equals.

HSR clearance removes a major closing condition for the chemical sector merger

The expiration satisfies one of the primary conditions required to close the transaction, though the deal still awaits additional regulatory approvals that are currently underway.