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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 […]
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request by the Trump administration to wipe away a lower court decision that had upheld Obama-era net neutrality rules.Read More
Net neutrality just secured a court victory… unfortunately, it won’t make much of a difference in the near future. The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a 2016 DC court ruling that upheld the FCC’s Obama-era net neutrality rules, leaving the earlier decision intact. The brief notice didn’t explain why the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Peter Dazeley) Federal judges have struck down an anti-robocall rule, saying that the Federal Communications Commission improperly treated every American who owns a smartphone as a potential robocaller. The FCC won’t be appealing the court decision, as Chairman Ajit Pai opposed the rule changes when they were implemented by the […]
Hillary Clinton must stop making excuses for why she lost the 2016 election and let others chart a course for the Democratic Party. That’s according to John Kerry’s former chief spin doctor. On Sunday, former State Department senior adviser of strategic communications, Marie Harf, told Fox News that Clinton should “take a very long vacation […]
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Friday that the agency will keep in place 2014 protections set forth by President Barack Obama, which have stopped the development of a large gold and copper mine known as the Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. The decision comes after a months-long review. Pruitt stated […]
Before departing office, Barack Obama ordered US spy agencies to plan operations to combat Russian cyberthreats, according to the The Washington Post. But, more than a year into Trump’s tenure, his administration remains reluctant to pursue those counter-measures, claims the report. In its assessment in January, the US intelligence community said that Putin used a […]
Published time: 8 Dec, 2017 20:00 Federal regulators announced they are rolling back regulations on “bomb trains,” arguing they are too costly. Under the rules, trains carrying high explosive liquids were supposed to have electronically-controlled pneumatic brakes by 2021. The US Department of Transportation said it will rescind the mandate for the pneumatic brakes in […]
Flickr/DVIDS President Donald Trump’s decision to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan has paved the way for a major expansion of the US air war against the Taliban and will involve more American forces working directly with Afghan troops in combat to call in airstrikes. Hundreds of American troops will accompany Afghan forces on […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, announced today he would sign a proposed rule that would withdraw the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). “Here’s the president’s message: The war on coal is over,” Pruitt said today during a speech given in Hazard, Kentucky. The CPP was initially proposed by the EPA in […]
