EPA to keep Obama-era mercury rules, but make it harder to tighten them

Enlarge / Smokestacks at Pacificorp’s 1,000MW coal-fired power plant on October 9, 2017 outside Huntington, Utah. (credit: George Frey/Getty Images) According to a report from Bloomberg, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not considering a roll back of Obama-era rules regulating industrial emissions of mercury. When the rules were codified in 2015, they required […]

Macron vows to tighten media control because 'fake news threatens democracy'

Published time: 4 Jan, 2018 00:51 France’s media watchdog will be given broader powers in 2018 to combat the “fake news” phenomenon which threatens democracy, President Emmanuel Macron promised during a New Year’s address to the press corps Wednesday. “I have decided that we will change our legal system to protect [our] democratic life from […]

Following ‘unmasking’ of Michael Flynn, US to tighten the screws on spies

Amid persistent claims the Obama administration eavesdropped on members of Trump’s transition team and leaked General Michael Flynn’s name to the media, tough new restrictions are on the horizon. The Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said new rules to address the issue of ‘unmasking’ are set to go into effect on January 15, 2018. […]

Saudi-led coalition intensifies Yemen airstrikes as Houthis tighten grip on Sanaa

Published time: 6 Dec, 2017 07:29 Edited time: 6 Dec, 2017 08:19 A Saudi-led coalition intensified airstrikes on Yemen early on Wednesday. The armed Houthi movement is tightening its grip on the capital after it killed former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who switched sides in the civil war. Saudi Arabia and its allies struck a […]

Facebook will reportedly tighten the screws on political advertisers

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook is reportedly going to tighten the screws on political advertisers using its platform. Facebook is going to “require ads that are targeted to people based on “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” to be manually reviewed before they go live, according to an email sent to advertisers and obtained by Axios’ Sara Fischer […]

Goldman Sachs could be about to tighten its stranglehold on global markets

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump is reportedly considering naming economic advisor Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs, to head the Federal Reserve. His appointment would make the Fed the third major world central bank currently led by a former top Goldman executive. Cohn would bring market experience to the job, but lacks any real foundation […]

European regulators push Facebook to tighten user privacy rules

Authorities in France and the Netherlands are the latest to speak out against the way Facebook handles the massive amounts of user data it collects. In separate announcements today, privacy watchdog groups in both countries said that Facebook did not give users enough control of their data, and that the company had collected information through […]