Government
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without ...
Tesla ‘Phantom Braking’ Prompts New NHTSA Probe
Auto safety regulators in the U.S. have launched another investigation of Tesla, this time tied to complaints that its cars can stop on roads for no apparent reason. The government says it has 354 ...
Judge Blocks Biden Order on Calculating Climate Risks in Government Decisions
A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of climate change in the government's permitting, investment and regulatory ...
Bipartisan Report Calls for New Strategy, Cabinet Post to Fight Opioid Epidemic
The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises. With vastly powerful synthetic ...
Insurer Groups Sue to Stop Washington Credit Scoring Regulations
The American Property Casualty Insurance Association, the Professional Insurance Agents of Washington, and the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Washington jointly filed two legal actions ...
U.S. Offers States $1.15B to Clean Up Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
The Biden administration on Monday said it would make $1.15 billion available to states to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells as part of a broad effort to reduce U.S. climate warming emissions and ...
White House Unveils Plan to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Water Utilities
The White House on Thursday unveiled a plan to beef up cybersecurity in the nation's water sector, an extension of its efforts to thwart attacks against critical infrastructure including electricity ...
Florida Senator Tries Cat Fund Changes to Cut Cost of Property Insurance
Seeing no action on bills that would address Florida's spiraling property insurance problems head-on, one state senator took a different route Thursday and proposed reducing insurers' payments to the ...