"Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over California’s vehicle emissions standards."
"Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the last presidential election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those that live in areas that went for President Biden. That's according to a newly-updated analysis from NPR, examining how partisanship and misinformation are shaping the pandemic."
"The power struggle inside a federal commission shows the real-world consequences of the Senate’s confirmation bottleneck."
"Sixteen months into the Biden presidency, Republicans still effectively control a federal agency that oversees mine safety, frustrating miner advocates who say the Trump nominees will continue to hand down decisions friendly to mine operators.
"The Republican candidates in Tuesday’s primary support more drilling and “energy independence,” while the Democrats “straddle” a line between support for fracking and concern about climate."
"Facing pressure from local health officials over conditions in their plants, meatpacking companies “drafted and pitched an executive order to the Trump White House” to keep slaughterhouses open during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, said a congressional staff report on Thursday."
"A House panel alleges that Tyson and other meat processors heavily influenced Trump’s executive order that compelled plants to keep operating".
"Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee today called for a criminal investigation into former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, alleging that the Trump administration official and others engaged in a campaign finance “quid pro quo” with a politically connected Arizona developer."
"A new political action committee run by two former Trump administration officials is marking its territory in a disinformation-rich campaign against the Biden administration’s goal of conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030, known informally as “30x30.”
"Monday U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, an Alaska Republican, told reporters, “The Biden administration announced that it was in essence taking half of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, what we call NPR-A, off the table. This is shortsighted."
"EPA staffers have tentatively concluded that the agency’s ground-level ozone standards do not need to be strengthened, reaffirming a Trump administration decision on one of the agency’s most closely watched pollutant limits."
