Private Law Has Failed to Hold Chemical Facilities Accountable During Disasters
Recently, a group of national security and environmental experts, including former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, former Occupational Safety and Health Administration head David Michaels, and retired United States Army Generals Russel Honoré and Randy Manner, wrote to EPA Administrator Michael Regan. They urged the agency for stronger and more stringent regulations to […]
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Johnson avoids Covid fine as 100 more issued in ‘partygate’ probe
The prime minister has avoided receiving a further Covid fine after the Met issued 100 ore fines for Covid rule-breaking in its ongoing “partygate” investigation. The Met has yet to disclose the events for which the fines were issued, but No 10 said that the prime minister and his spouse Carrie Johnson were not among […]
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Johnson says ‘no repentance’ for Putin as Finland seeks Nato membership
UK prime minister Boris Johnson has stressed that there can be no return to a “normal” relationship with the Kremlin as the invasion of Ukraine continues to wreak devastation. His remarks came as Finland, a nation with Russia on a more than 800-mile border, announced its intention to join NATO. Quizzed by LBC Radio earlier […]
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FBI Raid on Project Veritas Poses Threat to Free Press, House GOP Says
House Republicans demand a congressional investigation into this matter FBI’s raid on and seizure of information from Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe and potentially other government actions against a free press. “I have called for a specific investigation into how some of those tools were used against Project Veritas,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told The Daily […]
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Congressional Staff Say “Cruel Ironies” of Their Jobs Make the Case for Unions
Members of the Congressional Workers Union recently argued for unionization of congressional staffers to end long hours, low pay, and abusive working conditions. While congressional staffers work to secure better working conditions for the public, they face the same conditions they’re seeking to end, two Democratic staffers argued in an op-ed for The New Republic. […]
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Elon Musk Says He’ll Let Trump Back on Twitter, Calling Ban “Foolish”
Tesla CEO Elon Tesla stated Tuesday that he would allow former President Donald Trump access to Twitter once the purchase of the social network site for almost $44billion is complete. Trump was banned from TwitterA mob of his loyalists, angered by his false claims about election fraud, attacked and destroyed the U.S. Capitol building on […]
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Sanders Schedules Hearing on Medicare for All
Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), announced that the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing Thursday to examine the economic, social and financial benefits of implementing Medicare to All to combat the present health care crisis. The COVID pandemic has claimed over 1 million lives in the U.S. so far, has highlighted the inequities in […]
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To Tackle Climate, Our Morality Must Catch Up With Our Intelligence
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned this week that there is a 50 percent chance that the world will experience a 1.5 degree increase in temperature over preindustrial levels within the next five year. Even those who view the glass as half full tend to agree that efforts undertaken so far by the world’s countries […]
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Texas Governor Intensifies Cruel Rampage Against Undocumented Immigrants
The Texas Governor. Greg Abbott has taken a particularly brutal, opportunistic, and vicious attack on undocumented immigrants over the last few weeks. First, he instructed state troopers. inspect every commercial truck coming into Texas from MexicoHe argued that this was an essential part of his effort against the smuggling undocumented immigrants into the country. However, […]
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Senator Compares Pregnant People to Sea Turtles in Anti-Abortion Statement
United States Senator Steve Daines (Republican from Montana) has made an absurd argument in favor allowing abortion rights to be dismantled across the country through a future Supreme Court decision, using environmental protections of sea turtles and eagles as his case. Daines spoke on the Senate floor on TuesdayTo compare these environmental standards with abortion […]
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