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 […]
The coalition is “demanding that Congress focus on passing badly needed comprehensive privacy legislation to actually protect us from the harms of Big Tech companies and data brokers.” A coalition of digital rights groups is sounding the alarm as U.S. lawmakers try “to push through a swarm of harmful internet bills that would severely impact […]