Former Michigan Governor in Line for Secretary of Energy Post
Granholm choice gives automakers an ally in new administration.
Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for Secretary of Energy.
President-elect Joe Biden is apparently prepared to nominate former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, giving the domestic auto industry an influential ally in the new administration’s inner circles.
Granholm’s selection, which hasn’t been announced formally, was kept well below the radar. However, Biden worked with Granholm on the critical effort to rescue General Motors and Chrysler Corp. during the early days of the Obama administration in 2009 when she was in her last term as Michigan’s governor.
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Mass. AG Wants Auto Group s Right To Repair Suit Tossed
Law360 (December 21, 2020, 2:37 PM EST) Massachusetts attorney general on Friday defended the recently passed Right to Repair ballot initiative against a legal challenge by an auto industry group, arguing that state law does not conflict with any federal statutes and that voters already rejected the suit s claims.
Attorney General Maura Healey s office argued that the lawsuit, filed in federal court by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, is an attempt to undo a petition approved by Bay State voters and said that nothing in the November ballot initiative is preempted by any federal law.
techUK and the Global Business Community call on EU to Safeguard International Data Flows
techUK and the Global Business Community call on EU to Safeguard International Data Flows
techUK has joined a wide-ranging coalition of industry groups in a call to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission to ensure much-needed legal certainty around data flows in and outside of the bloc.
As a recent BusinessEurope-led coalition statement underlines, an unduly restrictive approach to data flows would have a significant effect on European industries and risks damaging the competitiveness and innovative capability of the EU’s digital economy. In their current form, the draft Recommendations would mean that a very large number of existing business functions carried out by EEA and non-EEA based companies would either no longer be permitted or extremely risky to carry out. This approach, coupled with the unrealistic regulatory burden placed on smaller firms, risk