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EPA on the brink of ‘regulatory capture’?: By avoiding input from career employees, promoting the views of industry leaders and proposing aggressive cuts to the agency’s budget and staff,...
View ArticleMystery Solved? Ozone-Destroying Gas Wafting from Plants in China
Outlawed emissions: A mysterious increase in emissions of a banned industrial gas that destroys the atmosphere’s protective ozone layer has been traced to a province in China where manufacturers have...
View ArticleWhile Trump Made Nice With Putin in Helsinki, Alleged Russian Agent Charged...
A friend of the NRA and a Russian spy?: There’s a lot to digest from Helsinki this week. But don’t miss this story happening not in Finland but in Washington. Mariia Butina, a 29-year-old Russian gun...
View ArticleLaw Puts Big Retailers on the Hook for Pay Owed to Truckers
For years, truck drivers hauling billions of dollars of clothing, appliances and other consumer goods from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have complained about rampant wage law violations by...
View ArticleWith Long Delays in Safety Overhaul, Utility Giant PG&E Was Playing With Fire
Faulty lines, fires sparked: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. acknowledged that its equipment likely started what became the most destructive fire in California’s history, burning nearly 14,000 homes...
View ArticleEfforts to Claw Back Stolen Wages Painfully Slow, as California Employers Who...
In February, when California labor officials announced the biggest wage theft case against a private company in state history, they made sure to include a warning for all bosses: “Stealing earned wages...
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