(Fairbanks, AK) – Monday, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor obtained a temporary restraining order against Sunil Thapa, the owner of The Himalayan, also known as Mt. McKinley Clothing Co., a tourist shop located outside of Denali National Park. Superior Court Judge Earl Peterson issued the temporary restraining order following a complaint filed by Attorney General Taylor […]
Many of the riders would harm the EPA’s “ability to do its critical work,” said one former agency lawyer. Nearly 260 advocacy groups on Monday warned that House Republicans have not halted their efforts to push through as many restrictions on government spending as possible in the federal budget bill, adding dozens more “poison pill” […]
“$7.25/hour, in 2023, is a poverty wage,” said the AFL-CIO. The federal minimum wage in the United States would be $42 an hour today if it rose at the same pace as Wall Street bonuses in recent decades. But it hasn’t. Monday marks 14 years since the last federal minimum wage increase—the longest stretch without a boost since […]
[content id=”79272″] The fish was caught near a drainage outlet where water from melted nuclear reactors flows—some of the same water that is to be treated and released from the power plant starting next month. With the Tokyo Electric Power Company planning to begin a release of 1.3 million tonnes of treated wastewater from the […]