CPSC Abandons Interest Disclosure Rules for Public Comments
Published Date: 8/28/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is dropping its plan to make people reveal their interests when speaking up or filing petitions. This means folks involved in hearings or rule requests won’t have to share extra info for now. Since nothing happened with this rule since September 2023, the Commission decided to just scrap it.
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