More than half of U.K. companies that have had 12 months to publish their modern slavery statements have not yet done so, according to figures released by TISCreport.

The future is coming. But experts can't seem to agree on when it's going to show up.

One might think that the auto industry favors weaker greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards, or at least the penalties set forth for non-compliance. But what it really favors are standards that are economically achievable and a definite set of rules for it to follow.

The EPA has finalized a rule postponing the dates for certain rules that would limit runoff from two waste streams at power plants: bottom ash transport water and flue gas desulfurization. Compliance dates for the rules, which were issued in Nov. 2015, have been pushed back by two years, the EPA says.

U.K. firms are focusing anti-slavery efforts on foreign supply chains and overlooking forced labour at home, according to research.