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Tax credits for clean energy and home-energy efficiency would still be phased out, albeit less quickly, under Senate Republicans’ latest proposed changes to a massive tax bill. Electric-vehicle incentives and other similar provisions would be reduced more rapidly. Senate Republicans cast their version of the bill as less damaging to the clean-energy industry than the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal appeals court it will reconsider the Biden administration’s ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States to determine whether it went “beyond what is necessary.” Asbestos is linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually and causes mesothelioma as well as [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation last week that would regulate a form of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins, the first of what the industry hopes will be a wave of bills to bolster its legitimacy and reassure consumers. The legislation, which passed by a 68-30 vote and will be sent to the House for [...]
Transportation Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives are considering a bill that calls on the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to send out a reminder to a licensed driver two weeks ahead of the expiration of a driver’s license. Current practice requires the registrar to notify each person whose driver’s license has expired within [...]
KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP) — President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer earlier this week said they had signed a trade deal that will reduce tariffs on United Kingdom auto and aerospace industry imports — but they are still discussing how to handle steel production. The pair spoke to reporters at the Group of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, an official said last weekend. Tatum King, an official with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, last week wrote regional leaders to halt investigations of the agricultural [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores suffer now that the federal government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. After 90 days of non-payment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which use the information to recalculate the borrower’s score. Falling [...]
A recent audit of the state Broadcast Educational Media Commission, or BEMC, found that fewer than half of Ohio’s public television stations and the channels they operate use the agency system devised to provide funding assistance for public-media programming. Members of the state auditor’s Ohio Performance Team determined that the agency currently operates the Joint [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump last week ordered federal government officials to consolidate wildland firefighting into a single program, despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes. The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts now split among five agencies and two Cabinet departments. [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump last week pulled the federal government out of an agreement with Washington, Oregon and four American Indian tribes to work together to restore salmon populations and boost tribal clean-energy development in the Pacific Northwest, deriding the plan as “radical environmentalism” that could have resulted in the breaching of four [...]