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U.S. EPA Seeking to Focus on Climate Mitigation
Jan 19 2023 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing adding mitigating climate change to its national focus over the next four years. The EPA on Thursday announced it’s considering adding environmental justice,...
U.S. Appeals Court to Weigh NCAA Case Over Pay for Athletes
Jan 19 2023 // The NCAA will ask a federal appeals court next month to block a lawsuit that seeks to have athletes treated as employees who are paid for their time, the latest high-profile challenge to amateurism in college sports. The...
Airbus Withdraws From U.S. FAA Boeing Safety Culture Panel
Jan 19 2023 // European planemaker Airbus said it had withdrawn from a U.S. government-named panel reviewing Boeing’s safety processes and how they influence Boeing safety culture after two fatal 737 MAX crashes in recent years...
FTX Reports $415M in Hacked Crypto, Bankman-Fried Says FTX U.S. Is Solvent
Jan 18 2023 // Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said in a report to creditors on Tuesday that about $415 million in cryptocurrency had been stolen in hacks. FTX has said it had recovered over $5 billion in crypto, cash and liquid securities,...
Russia Criticizes Reuters Story on Russian Hackers Targeting U.S. Nuclear Scientists
Jan 13 2023 // Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday criticized Reuters for spreading what it said was poorly sourced anti-Russian propaganda with a story about a Russian hacking team which targeted three nuclear research...
U.S. Securities Regulator Lists April for Climate Rule Action
Jan 13 2023 // The top U.S. securities regulator has cited April as the release date for a long-anticipated rule on companies’ climate-related disclosures, according to a recent federal notice. In a draft proposal last March the...
U.S. Congress to Investigate FAA Computer Outage That Snarled Flights
Jan 12 2023 // U.S. lawmakers will review the cause of a Federal Aviation Administration computer system outage overnight on Tuesday that sparked a nationwide ground stop and delayed or canceled more than 10,000 U.S. flights. Senate...
Google Argues it Doesn’t Block Rivals in Bid to Kill U.S. Government Antitrust Lawsuit
Jan 12 2023 // Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday argued that a court should toss out a government antitrust lawsuit against it, saying that agreements it made with Apple and others to make Google the default search engine do not bar...
Reinsurers Retreat From U.S. Disaster Hotspots on Climate Risks
Jan 12 2023 // Reinsurers are increasingly reconsidering their business in natural disaster-prone locations including California and Florida as losses mount, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Climate change has increased...
Update: U.S. Flight Departures Resume After FAA Lifts Ground Stop
Jan 11 2023 // US flight departures began resuming early Wednesday after an overnight outage to a key air-traffic system prompted authorities to ground planes nationwide. The Federal Aviation Administration said normal air traffic...
U.S. Climate Disasters Racked Up $165 Billion in Damage in 2022
Jan 11 2023 // A massive hurricane, a historic drought, and 16 other major disasters across the US collectively racked up $165 billion in damages and killed at least 474 people in 2022, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Bankman-Fried Fraud Charges Sidestep Debate Over How U.S. Law Sees Crypto
Jan 9 2023 // Sam Bankman-Fried may find it hard to argue the fraud charges against him should be tossed because of uncertainty as to how U.S. law treats cryptocurrency, as other high-profile defendants in criminal cases involving...
Russian Hackers Targeted U.S. Nuclear Scientists
Jan 6 2023 // A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cybersecurity experts. Between...
U.S. Targets Non-Compete Clauses That Block Workers From Better Jobs
Jan 6 2023 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which enforces antitrust law, proposed a rule that would ban companies from requiring workers to sign noncompete provisions as well as some training repayment agreements, which companies...
U.S. FCC Proposes Additional Spectrum for Drone Communications
Jan 5 2023 // The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday proposed new rules to make licensed radio spectrum in the 5 GHz band for the rising number of unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, in use. Currently, drones...
Starbucks Illegally Terminated Union Leader, U.S. Officials Say
Jan 4 2023 // US labor board prosecutors have concluded that Starbucks Corp. illegally forced out a New York barista who has been a key architect of the union campaign that swept through hundreds of its cafes this year. The union...
Banks Should Be More Cautious on Crypto Contagion Risks, U.S. Regulators Warn
Jan 4 2023 // Banks should be more careful about the risks of fraud, legal uncertainty and misleading disclosures by crypto firms, U.S. regulators warned on Tuesday, just two months after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX stunned the...
New Mexico Seeking Changes to U.S. Rules for Wildfire Claims
Jan 3 2023 // New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is asking that changes be made to rules proposed by the U.S. government as it processes damage claims from a historic wildfire sparked by forest managers. Balderas filed comments...
U.S. Sues AmerisourceBergen, Says Distributor Helped Ignite Opioid Epidemic
Jan 3 2023 // The U.S. government filed a lawsuit accusing AmerisourceBergen Corp., one of the nation’s largest drug distributors, of helping ignite the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic by failing to report hundreds of...
Google, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit
Dec 29 2022 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google and several other companies of violating the privacy of children under age 13 by tracking their YouTube activity without parental...
