Author: Sarah Okeson
Republicans have been trying to weaken protections for endangered animals and now they are trying to get permission to destroy some records about what animals are protected.
Our Energy secretary could ship treated nuclear waste from our nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site to a Texas nuclear dump near an aquifer suppling water.
Trump health officials plan to rewrite guidelines for a federally funded family planning program to make it harder for low-income women to obtain birth control.
Federal energy regulators plan to rush through environmental reviews for a $45 billion liquefied natural gas project in Alaska that would sell gas to Asian utilities and could help worsen climate change.
Trump’s Department of Energy put together a bogus study to justify a proposal to prop up polluting coal-fired power plants and financially failing nuclear plants.
The Trump administration could harm the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a protected area of the Atlantic Ocean about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, Mass., by allowing commercial fishing.
The Republican Congress has bottled up bills that could prevent disenfranchisement of African-Americans and other minorities as part of their effort to retain control of Congress.
Chief Justice John Roberts halted a federal judge’s order that invalidated a Federal Election Commission regulation that has allowed donors to dark-money groups to be anonymous.
“Common sense compels the conclusion that a notice that does not specify when and where to appear for a removal proceeding is not a ‘notice to appear,’ ” wrote Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Foxconn will be allowed to suck up to 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan and then dump that water.
OSHA doesn’t have specific regulations for heat which means it is harder to prove that the employer is at fault.
McDowell consulted “a transmission person, as well as the maintenance people at the local Penske Truck group and the U-Haul down the street” but no engineers, according to the lawsuit.
In 2017, Ride the Ducks International asked the Trump administration for waivers of the federal safety requirements.
The Trump administration is continuing its war against unions by trying to make it harder for lowly paid home healthcare workers to pay union dues.
“We’ve never seen this kind of federal intrusion in the energy industries,” said energy consultant Rob Gramlich.
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