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Senate Votes To Give FDA Regulatory Power Over Tobacco
"Chicago, Northern Illinois Will See Billions Of Noise-Making Bugs Soon"
"The cicadas are coming; billions of them." 'The noise is actually kind of deafening. It sounds like 100 chainsaws being used at the same time,' said Jim Louderman, a collections assistant in the Field Museum's Insect Division."
"Foes Wage Attacks As Biden Rolls Out Power Plant Rules"
"The Biden administration hopes its new rules will withstand an onslaught of legal and political opposition."
"Standards Set To Eliminate Emissions From New Federal Buildings By 2030"
"The Biden administration has finalized standards for federal buildings that will eliminate onsite fossil fuel usage for new projects by the end of the decade, the Energy Department confirmed Wednesday."
"White House Unveils Plan To Accelerate Power Grid Expansion"
"The Department of Energy created a one-stop shop for federal permitting, helping transmission developers avoid the lengthy patchwork of regulatory approvals that has slowed major projects. The program makes the department the lead agency in permitting and finalizes a yearslong, multiadministration effort to coordinate the work of at least nine agencies with a hand in permitting power lines."
"One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu"
"Federal regulators have discovered fragments of bird flu virus in roughly 20 percent of retail milk samples tested in a nationally representative study, the Food and Drug Administration said in an online update on Thursday." "There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread."
"U.S. Requires More Dairy Cows Tested For Bird Flu As Viral Concerns Grow"
"Dairy cows must be tested for bird flu before moving across state lines under a federal order to be issued Wednesday, as evidence mounts the virus is more widespread than feared among cows in the United States."
"The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Is Still A Bipartisan Unicorn"
"As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’"
EPA Could Allow 10x as Much of Toxic Pesticide on Your Tomatoes and Celery
"Against the guidance of scientific advisory panels, the EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders. “It’s exactly what we recommended against,” one panelist said."