Authors of paper accepted for publication in Harvard Environmental Law Review argue firms are ‘killing members of the public at an accelerating rate’
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Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe. Jeremiah 12:12 (NIV) ✝ 
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Lawyers for chemical company say they are making ‘significant’ progress over deal with city of Stuart, Florida...
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U.S. DOI has sought to preserve the resources of this historically and culturally valuable area by withdrawing the public lands and federal mineral estate surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park from new oil and gas leasing.
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Merck on Tuesday became the first pharmaceutical company to sue the Biden administration over a recently enacted law that empowers Medicare to directly negotiate the prices of a small number of high-cost prescription medicines with drug makers—a change that could threaten Merck's bottom line.
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Climate change is remapping where humans can exist on the planet. As optimum conditions shift away from the equator and toward the poles, more than 600 million people have already been stranded outside of a crucial environmental niche that scientists say best supports life.
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Former President Donald Trump made more than $80 million from his businesses in Ireland and Scotland during his years in the White House, according to a report from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
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Would we really risk the catastrophe of a debt default because we think that some citizens who are receiving food stamps may not be working hard enough? It appears that we would...
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“Succession” is over, but spoiled, entitled billionaire man-children are still very much with us, running social media companies, owning newspapers and television networks, and funding politicians and judges who then keep their taxes low and regulations minimal.
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We already knew that the deal struck between the president and the House Republicans, to lift the debt ceiling, was going to place new work requirements on childless adults between the ages of 50 and 54 in return for food stamps. What we didn’t know is that...
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Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) violated the STOCK Act, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) said he received ‘updated guidance’ after not initially disclosing stock trades.
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, long described as the only billionaire in his state and the owner of a huge network of coal businesses, is facing multiple lawsuits over his companies' unpaid bills and fines — but his lawyers say his business empire is out of money and unable to pay...
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For years, a band of science-loving "troll hunters" hounded climate change deniers off Twitter -- but Elon Musk's takeover has upended their efforts, with many ousted accounts back, pushing fresh disinformation. Despite the threat climate change poses to the planet...
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AccuWeather experts say a mild, steady warmup and lack of rain have prevented a rapid snowpack melt in the West, but the flooding threat is far from over.
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MINNEAPOLIS – Mohamed Ali Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali have pleaded guilty to their roles in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) receives criminal complaints against 35 respondents from the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), and the owners of the MT Princess Empress in relation to the oil spill in Oriental Mindoro.
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Has Elon Musk presided over a rightward drift in Twitter as well as a decline in value?
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Florida's governor is the latest presidential candidate to be less-than-transparent about his income and assets.
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Indicted Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has lost his bid to block the public from knowing the identities of the donors who bailed him out. As reported by Adam Klasfeld of Law and Crime News, Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields granted a motion to unseal the names of the Santos donors...
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High gas prices are fueling the demand for electric vehicles in some traditionally conservative areas where environmentalism doesn’t typically drive purchasing decisions. In at least two deep red Texas counties, EV purchases have eclipsed the national average, The Washington Post reports...
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Okay, the House has passed the debt-ceiling deal, and the Senate will follow suit. So the economic crisis is over. Right? Not quite, because another and more serious economic crisis is brewing...
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Let those who are experts at cursing— whose cursing could rouse Leviathan— curse that day. Job 3:8 (NLT) ✝
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The U.S. House and Senate have now both approved the deal struck by President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy to suspend the nation’s debt limit through 2025 in exchange for a range of cuts sought by Congressional Republicans.
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A preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office released Thursday estimates that the $21.4 billion in IRS funding cuts that Republicans and the Biden White House agreed to enact as part of their debt ceiling agreement would result in $40.4 billion in lost tax revenue...
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MIAMI -- In 1948, work got underway in the Florida Everglades on a public works project hailed as the nation’s largest, aimed at reigning in once and for all the mighty river of grass that once spanned much of the peninsula.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised his supporters an email he sent requesting new donations would be fewer than 400 words, but an analysis shows that the funds request was more than 2,000 words.
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