Q: Over the past decade or so, the DOT has adopted a series of consumer-protection regulations, such as the full-price rule, the codeshare rule and, most recently, the rule requiring automatic refunds ...

Airlines for America, the trade group representing the nation’s largest carriers, has submitted a 93-page petition to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting the rollback of several key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 6, 2026, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released a proposal suggesting that the agency would like to ease ...

The Trump administration is rolling back two major Biden-era consumer protection efforts: one affecting air travel and the other impacting millions of American workers. Labor Economist Aaron Sojourner ...

It was one of the most popular consumer protection rules — and also one of the shortest surviving. The "Click to Cancel" rule was finalized by the Federal Trade Commission to great acclaim on October ...

A new report from the Council of Economic Advisers estimates that federal consumer finance rules have cost Americans between ...

Under a Biden administration proposal, cash compensation was to be required in cases of cancellations that were the fault of the airline. Photo Credit: Nuno Andre/Shutterstock The Transportation ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reconsidering a set of recent consumer protections that won broad public support, signaling a major shift at the watchdog agency. New leaders are reviewing ...