The Regulatory Review

Paramount and several state regulators are pushing back against demands for a more extensive review of its pending merger deal. Both the company and the states involved have rejected calls to widen the examination of the transaction, signalling they want the approval process to proceed without further delays or added scrutiny.

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance for cardiovascular surgical robots, outlining the agency's current thinking on the development and review of robotic systems used in cardiac and vascular procedures. The document gives manufacturers and clinicians a framework to follow, and a public comment period typically allows stakeholders to give feedback before the guidance is finalized.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed its environmental review of the planned restart of the Crane Clean Energy Center in Pennsylvania, a key step toward restarting the former Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor. The review clears a major regulatory hurdle for the project, which Microsoft has agreed to support through a power purchase deal to supply its data centres with nuclear energy.

Federal regulators have finalized the environmental impact study for the proposed expansion of the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas export facility on the Louisiana-Texas coast. The completion of the environmental review is a key step toward a final decision on the expansion, which would boost US LNG export capacity. The project is significant for global energy markets amid ongoing demand for American natural gas.