Government
Colorado Wildfire Victims Hit ‘Green’ Building Code Hurdle
Some homeowners recovering from Colorado's most destructive wildfire in history, which decimated entire neighborhoods near Denver late last year, say they could end up paying tens of thousands of ...
TikTok Facing Probe Over How Platform Markets to Kids
ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok is being targeted by a group of states seeking to determine whether the social media platform is being improperly marketed to children. The states are investigating how TikTok ...
Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Defies Expectations on Employer-Employee Cases
Labor unions and worker advocates have applauded President Joe Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. Yet a look back at Jackson's decisions in cases involving ...
EPA Power to Curb Carbon Emissions Questioned by Supreme Court
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a case that ...
Supreme Court Asked to Resolve Federal Drug Law vs. State Medical Marijuana Laws Debate
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to address whether federal drug law that criminalizes possession of marijuana invalidates state orders requiring employers and their workers compensation ...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without ...
Tesla ‘Phantom Braking’ Prompts New NHTSA Probe
Auto safety regulators in the U.S. have launched another investigation of Tesla, this time tied to complaints that its cars can stop on roads for no apparent reason. The government says it has 354 ...
Judge Blocks Biden Order on Calculating Climate Risks in Government Decisions
A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of climate change in the government's permitting, investment and regulatory ...