Pharmaceutical Industry Faces Scrutiny Over Painkiller Panel

The Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee is a government advisory panel, but it's recently been revealed that nearly a third of its members have ties to the drug industry.

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Supreme Court, Washington.

Company Asks Supreme Court to Keep Pipeline Running

Officials warned that a winter shutdown could be devastating to customers.

A Tesla electric vehicle emblem is affixed to a passenger vehicle Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, in Boston. U.S. highway safety investigators want to know why Tesla didn’t file recall paperwork when it updated Autopilot software so it would do a better job spotting parked emergency vehicles.

U.S. Regulators Seek Answers from Tesla over Lack of Recall

It follows an investigation of Tesla vehicles crashing into emergency vehicles.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at a bill signing ceremony, McAllen, Texas, Sept. 22, 2021.

Texas Gov. Orders Ban on Company Vaccine Mandates

The Biden administration is set to require employers with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly.

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, delivers a speech in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 6, 2021.

IMF Board Expresses Confidence in Leader

She faced allegations related to data-rigging at the World Bank.

In this June 7, 2017 file photo, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) headquarters is pictured in Paris, France. Nearly 140 countries have agreed on a tentative deal that would make sweeping changes to how big, multinational companies are taxed in order to deter them from stashing their profits in offshore tax havens where they pay little or no tax. The agreement announced Friday foresees countries enacting a global minimum corporate tax of 15% on the biggest, internationally active companies.

130+ Countries Reach Deal on Minimum Corporate Tax

But the deal faces several hurdles before it can take effect.

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New Law to Ban Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment

The measure is part of an aggressive strategy to reduce pollution.

OECD headquarters in Paris, June 7, 2017.

Global Tax Deal to Stem Corporate Use of Tax Havens

More than 130 countries have forged a deal on how big global companies are taxed.

Tesla owners, Tesla employees and local political leaders gather at the service bay doors during an event on Sept. 9, 2021, to celebrate a partnership between Tesla and the Nambé Pueblo after the electric car company repurposed a defunct casino into a sales, service and delivery center near Santa Fe, N.M. Tesla has opened a store on tribal land in New Mexico, sidestepping car dealership laws that prohibit car companies from selling directly to customers.

Former Cabinet Secretary Defends Auto Dealerships from Tesla

He is defending New Mexico's ban on direct sales of motor vehicles.

Former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh, center, walks out of a courtroom with his lawyers after being sentenced to two years in prison for lying and deceiving the public about the progress of a pair of nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were never finished and wasted billions of dollars on Thursday, Oct. 7, in Columbia, S.C. Marsh also has pleaded guilty in state charges in the case.

Ex-CEO Who Oversaw Doomed Nuclear Project Sentenced

Imprisoning Kevin Marsh sends a message of public responsibility to powerful executives.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, at podium, speaks during a news conference at Marsh Creek State Park in Downingtown, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. Shapiro filed criminal charges Tuesday against the developer of a problem-plagued pipeline that takes natural gas liquids from the Marcellus Shale gas field to an export terminal near Philadelphia.

Pipeline Developer Charged Over Systematic Contamination

The spill contaminated wetlands, a stream and part of a 535-acre lake.

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NAM: China 'Remains a Hub of Bad Behaviors'

NAM CEO says China's IP theft and market-distorting industrial subsidies are harming manufacturers and their employees.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a mug, during a visit to a construction site in Manchester, England, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

UK Pledges to Hit All-Renewable Electricity by 2035

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK could get to “complete clean energy production” by the next decade.