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NAM to SEC: Allow Manufacturers the Option of Semiannual Reporting

told the Securities and Exchange Commission this month. What’s going on: “Semiannual reporting could be an attractive option for corporate issuers of all sizes, depending on a company’s investor base, maturity and capital needs,” the NAM told the SEC in response to a call for public comment on the draft rulemaking, which was issued in …

NAM to Congress: Protect Innovation in America’s Defense Industrial Base

A proposed provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 to remove the intellectual property rights of government contractors and expand the Pentagon’s access to the IP would undermine military readiness and disadvantage manufacturers, the NAM and more than two dozen allied groups recently told the House Committee on Armed Services. What’s …

Administration Greenlights South32’s Manganese and Zinc Mine

Bloomberg Government, subscription). What’s going on: On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service issued the final record of decision for the $2 billion Hermosa Critical Minerals Project in Santa Cruz County near the U.S.–Mexico border. The project, which “contains one of the world’s largest undeveloped zinc deposits as well as other key minerals …