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Dec 3rd, 2020

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Agency Updates Auto Safety Ratings for New Technology

The NHTSA wants to update its ratings system for vehicle safety to include testing of some new advanced driver-assist systems.

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during an event at The Queen theater on Thursday, Jan. 14 in Wilmington, DE.

Biden Unveils $1.9T 'American Rescue Plan'

The economic plan keys on speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout.

In this May 8, 2003, file photo, a Northern Spotted Owl flies after an elusive mouse jumping off the end of a stick in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. The Trump administration has slashed more than 3 million acres of protected habitat for the northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington and northern California, much of it in prime timber locations in Oregon's coastal ranges. Environmentalists are accusing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under President Donald Trump of taking a 'parting shot' at protections designed to help restore the threatened owl species.

Trump Slashes Imperiled Owl Protections

It's being called a "parting gift to the timber industry."

Tents line a sidewalk on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, April 18, 2020.

Proposed Corporate Tax Hike Would Aid California Homeless

The state suffers from prohibitively high housing costs and wages that can't keep up.

In this June 11, 2020 file photo Wynn Whitmeyer of the Idaho Falls Fire Department uses a drip can to ignite cheat grass and tumbleweeds during a controlled burn east of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Environmentalists have filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S government to block plans to build up to 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of fuel breaks they claim would violate the Endangered Species Act in a misguided effort to slow the advance of wildfires in six Western states.

Group Moves to Sue US Gov't Over Fuel Break Plan

Fuel breaks involve clearing stretches of vegetation to slow the progress of fires.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon during a press conference at the Kendrick Gallery in Cheyenne, March 21, 2019.

Wyoming Vows to Fight Any Biden Regulations on Energy

Gov. Mark Gordon said the state will push back against regulations that hinder development of fossil fuels.

Uber driver Jose Luis Guevara, a member of the Mobile Workers Alliance, pauses for a picture outside Los Angeles City Hall. Drivers for app-based ride-hailing and delivery services are suing to overturn a California ballot initiative.

Uber, Lyft Drivers Sue over California Ballot Measure

Drivers bringing the lawsuit have several hurdles to clear, but their arguments are "compelling."

China has been accused of widespread rights violations against Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups.

China Vows to Defend Itself Over Labor Measures

The U.K. is demanding companies' supply chains are free of forced labor from the Xinjiang region.

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Lawyer Who Took on Big Tobacco Dies of COVID-19

He successfully sought billions in legal settlements in the 1990s.

People gathered outside U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's office in Juneau, Alaska, to protest the proposed Pebble Mine, June 25, 2019.

Alaska Gov. Plans to Appeal Mine Project Denial

The copper and gold mine would be located near the world's largest sockeye salmon runs.

This file photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. The Corporate Transparency Act, enacted into law on Jan. 1, 2021, seeks to strengthen controls by creating a corporate registry managed by the Treasury Department.

Law Cracks Down on Shell Companies to Combat Corruption

The overhaul of money laundering laws is aimed at locating the proceeds from foreign bribery, drug trafficking and financing for terrorists.

In this file photo, oil rigs stand in the Loco Hills field near Artesia, N.M.. In the closing months of the Trump administration energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years.

Oil Companies Lock in Drilling, Challenging Biden

Companies submitted more than 3,000 drilling permit applications in a three-month period that included the election.