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The Trump administration last week announced that it will reconsider the reach of the Clean Water Act and is expected to further limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for some areas. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said at agency headquarters in Washington [...]
Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people has recommended a ban on some helicopter flights to improve safety. A military helicopter collided with the American Airlines jet as it was approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport over the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court this week rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change lawsuits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states. The justices acted on a Republican effort to file suit in the Supreme Court over the Democratic states’ use of their own [...]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines raises questions about the viability of a proposed 2,500-mile project snaking through five Midwest states. Summit Carbon Solutions, the company behind the estimated $8.9 billion pipeline, vowed to keep pursuing the [...]
A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel upheld a trial court’s denial of a southwest Columbus man’s motion for postconviction relief and a new trial related to his conviction in 2021 on charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping. The appellate panel found that the Delaware County Common Pleas Court ruled correctly that 44-year-old Kenneth Lewis’ [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court justices last week heard arguments in a case about restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico. Some justices said they are concerned about safety issues and the lack of progress toward a permanent solution. A plan to build a national storage [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve Chinese nationals — including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company — have been charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, federal agencies and universities, the Justice Department said. A set of criminal cases filed in New York and Washington add new [...]
Attorneys seeking approval of the $2.8 billion legal settlement for college sports pointed to nearly 102,000 athletes who signed up to receive damages from the action, while batting down objections to what they described as the “intergalactic paradigm shift” the settlement will create across the NCAA. In a motion filed in federal court earlier this [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has denied Elon Musk’s request for a court order blocking OpenAI from converting itself to a for-profit company but said she could expedite a trial to consider Musk’s claims against the ChatGPT maker and its CEO. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that “Musk has not demonstrated [...]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is dropping its lawsuit against the company that runs the Zelle payment platform and three Amercian banks as federal agencies continue to pull back on previous enforcement actions now that President Donald Trump is back in office. In December, a federal regulator sued JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of [...]