The Environmental Protection Agency wants to stop collecting data on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other polluting sites. The proposed rule change comes as the Trump administration attempts to get rid of the agency’s ability to regulate planet-heating pollution at all.
[The New York Times]
“They’re doing away with science,” Christine Todd Whitman, former Environmental Protection Agency administrator and former Republican governor of New Jersey, tells Bloomberg. That only makes it harder to prepare for the consequences of a warming world, from eroding coastlines to more devastating wildfires across the US.
Nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations agents were tapped to assist removing immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Cato Institute reported. HSI is part of ICE but typically works on investigations like human trafficking and child exploitation. The numbers underscore concerns officials raised to me in this story.
[Cato Institute]
Chief Justice John Roberts granted an administrative stay preventing Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from resuming her work during an appeal of a decision that reversed her firing. Slaughter briefly returned to the office for the second time since her firing after the appeals court lifted an earlier stay.
Another 200 or more were injured during demonstrations, The New York Times reports based on local news accounts. Police used rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse protesters who occupied a security building, witnesses told The Times. Nepal blocked 26 social media platforms that did not register with the government.
[The New York Times]
The Federal Trade Commission is dropping its legal battle for the noncompete ban passed under former Democratic Chair Lina Khan. It was already blocked by a court, and Republican Chair Andrew Ferguson had originally opposed it as unlawful. He now proposes more targeted steps to eliminate illegal noncompete agreements.
[Federal Trade Commission]
