Regulatory Compliance

Calgary – September 25, 2026 -- Friends of Science Society released a report by retired energy economist Robert Lyman, titled "Climate Monster - The Heavy Hand of Climate Regulation," arguing that Canada's net-zero policies rest on scenarios the climate modelling community formally retired in April 2026.

Ottawa's updated climate report reuses retired warming scenarios, group says

Environment and Climate Change Canada's "Canada's Changing Climate Report 2026" update prompted media claims that climate change is "irreversible." Friends of Science Society says the report continues to rely on the same implausible, high-emissions scenarios used in the 2019 version, which it argues triggered Canada's 2019 declaration of a climate emergency. The group had previously issued a rebuttal, "Climate Change Your Mind," challenging that earlier report's methodology.

Chicago – September 25, 2026 -- Keeper Security has launched a zero-knowledge Google Chat integration that lets organizations approve privileged access requests, retrieve credentials and manage secrets without leaving Google Workspace.

Integration eliminates tool-switching for privileged access approvals

The new Google Chat App allows teams to submit vault access requests with justification and custom permission levels, retrieve secrets, and approve just-in-time elevation requests directly within chat channels. Administrators can enforce time-limited access windows and policy-driven approval routing without requiring users to navigate separate systems, while full audit trails and reporting remain intact.

Paris – September 25, 2026 -- BNP Paribas has signed a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to expand its access to AI-optimized infrastructure, Gemini models and Gemini Enterprise, the companies announced.

BNP Paribas will integrate Gemini models into its internal AI assistant used by 65,000 employees

The bank's Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) division plans to fold Gemini models into LLM@CIB, its generative AI assistant, and deploy agentic AI across sales, trading, research and structuring workflows, including the preparation of corporate credit memos.

Gemini already powers customer support for 200 advisers at Nickel

Google Cloud and Gemini technologies are already live at Nickel, BNP Paribas' payment account business within its Commercial, Personal Banking & Services division, where Gemini underpins Nickel Assist, a tool helping 200 customer advisers resolve client requests based on operating procedures.

Allentown, Pa. – September 25, 2026 -- PPL Electric Utilities has been selected to receive up to $71.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to rebuild 29.3 miles of an existing 230-kilovolt transmission corridor under the Montour Grid Resilience and Advanced Reconductoring Project.

DOE Secretary Chris Wright joins officials to announce the SPARK Program award

The funding flows through DOE's Speed to Power through Accelerated Reconductoring and other Key Advanced Transmission Technology Upgrades (SPARK) Program, part of the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships initiative. Wright said the investment will help move more electricity across existing infrastructure and deliver lower-cost, more reliable power.

Austin, Texas – September 25, 2026 -- A proposed Medicare payment change involving Modifier 25 would reallocate approximately $889 million in annual fee-for-service payments, with private practices and solo physicians absorbing $724.4 million, or 81.5%, of the modeled reductions, according to a new analysis from Jiro Health.

Six specialties bear 82.3% of the total reduction

Jiro's Practice Impact Analysis, titled "Who Pays for CMS's Modifier 25 Proposal?", found that six medical specialties account for roughly $732 million of the modeled impact. Dermatology alone represents $395.4 million, or 44.5% of the total reallocation. Podiatric medicine and surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, ophthalmology and family medicine together account for an additional $336 million.

West Chester, Ohio – September 25, 2026 -- E Tech Group will present on the compliance and data integrity risks of scaling laboratory automation from pilot to full production at the ISPE Boston Area Chapter 2026 Product Show on October 7 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Session targets the gap between pilot success and regulated production failure

Sura Hadi, Director of Laboratory Automation and Industrial Robotics (LAIR) at E Tech Group, will lead the 3:00 p.m. ET session, "From Pilot to Production: Scaling Lab Automation Without Breaking Compliance, Data Integrity, or Teams," in West Red Level, Suite 81. The talk addresses why automation pilots that succeed in contained workflows frequently break down when expanded into regulated manufacturing environments, where instruments must connect to scheduling systems, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN), and other enterprise platforms.

Los Angeles – September 25, 2026 -- A fraud alert from a Lear Capital employee led Antioch, California police to dismantle a multi-state identity theft operation with combined victim losses of nearly $30,000, the Antioch Police Department said.

Employee tip triggers police investigation into suspicious transactions

On September 25, 2026, a Lear Capital employee flagged account activity believed to be fraudulent and alerted the Antioch Police Department. Detective Ryan Duff traced the transactions to victims in multiple states.

Pleasanton, Calif. – – September 25, 2026 -- Aqua Medical, Inc. has closed a Series B financing round led by Nashville-based Relevance Ventures, with proceeds earmarked to complete its ongoing U.S. RESTORE-1 pilot study and prepare for a planned U.S. pivotal trial of its investigational diabetes procedure.

Series B capital targets completion of RESTORE-1 pilot and pivotal trial launch

The financing will fund the remaining stages of the RESTORE-1 pilot study, which is evaluating Aqua Medical's Proximal Intestinal Mucosal Ablation (PIMA) procedure for Type 2 diabetes under an FDA-approved Investigational Device Exemption. The company said the round will also support operational preparations, including patient recruitment infrastructure, for a larger planned pivotal trial subject to regulatory authorization.

Baltimore – September 25, 2026 -- Richard Huffman, founder, president and CEO of Celebree School, joined U.S. Rep. Johnny Olszewski and a local Chick-fil-A owner on a featured panel at the 2026 International Franchise Association Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C., pressing for passage of the American Franchise Act.

Record crowd of 500 franchise executives lobbies Congress

The Summit, hosted by IFA Senior Director of Federal Government Relations Haider Murtaza, drew more than 500 franchise executives, owners and Franchisees of the Year to the capital. Attendees spent the week urging lawmakers to pass the bipartisan American Franchise Act, which would establish a single, permanent federal joint-employer standard for the franchise industry after a decade of shifting rules.

Seattle – September 25, 2026 -- Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS) announced that President and CEO Steven Quay, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as a panelist at the 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2026), scheduled for October 1-3, 2026, at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston.

Quay joins regulatory and academic leaders to discuss clinical pathways for aging-related diseases

The panel, titled "Clinical Trials in Diseases of Aging: From Evidence to New Therapeutics and Regulatory Pathways," is set for Thursday, September 25, 2026, from 11:20 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET. The session will be moderated by Sebastien Thuault, Editor at Nature Medicine, and will include Jill Lee, Director of Regulatory Policy & Intelligence at Novo Nordisk; Calum MacRae, Professor at Mass General Brigham; and Steve Horvath, Professor at UCLA.