On January 18, 2022, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) signed S.1016, a bill that restricts the outdoor use of neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides in the state. The bill’s passage followed a 54-21 vote in the Assembly and a 33-6 vote [...]

Brian Favreau is operations coordinator for Sterling, Massachusetts-based Favreau Forestry, an accredited, 12-year TCIA member company. He has been looking to hire a new driver with a commercial driver’s license (CDL) for eight months. Not having one is slowing down [...]

On October 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new regulation (Independent Contractor [IC] Proposal) outlining how the agency, courts and employers should determine whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor [...]

On September 22, 2022, the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing, “State of Emergency: Examining the Impact of Growing Wildfire Risk on the Insurance Market,” providing a glimpse into ongoing efforts to reduce wildfire risk, with a focus [...]

On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed H.R. 5376, the budget-reconciliation legislation commonly referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The IRA, which is a slimmed-down version of Biden’s original Build Back Better economic and climate-change package, [...]