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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health. The decision by EPA Administrator Michael Regan means that one of the agency's most [...]
COLUMBUS — Ohio voting-rights groups moved to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio's unconstitutional congressional map this week, arguing that prolonging the legal wrangling over where to draw district boundaries isn't in the best interests of Ohio voters. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Ohio and [...]
ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ambitious and expensive plans for a dilapidated factory at San Quentin State Prison where inmates of one of the nation's most notorious lockups once built furniture, and lawmakers have given him the greenlight to start with little input or oversight. He wants to spend $360 million demolishing [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration earlier this week weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government's jurisdiction over them. The rule would require that wetlands be more clearly connected to other waters like oceans and rivers, a policy shift that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The blood thinner Eliquis and popular diabetes treatments, including Jardiance, are among the first drugs that will be targeted for price negotiations in an effort to cut Medicare costs. President Joe Biden’s administration earlier this week released a list of 10 drugs for which the federal government will take a first-ever step: [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the features that President Joe Biden cited in his plan to bring internet to every home and business in the United States by 2030 was affordability, but an important federal program established to keep broadband costs down for low-income households is set to expire next year. The Affordable Connectivity [...]
NEW ORLEANS — The Biden administration last week finalized tighter rules for complex devices meant to prevent catastrophic blowouts on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, reversing some Trump administration policies and returning to a more stringent regulatory stance adopted after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Failure of blowout preventer equipment was a major cause [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican support for gun restrictions is slipping a year after Congress passed firearms control legislation with bipartisan support, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's led to a gap between Democrats and the GOP on the issue of guns that has widened in the last [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio attorney general has rejected petition language for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s system for drawing political maps, determining that it failed to present a fair and truthful summary of what is proposed. In announcing the determination, a statement from Republican Dave Yost’s office said, “The decision underscores [...]