States and industry groups say the two pollutants are already tightly regulated and that the EPA’s regulations will hurt their businesses. The Supreme Court declined on Oct. 4 to halt U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting industry emissions of mercury and methane. The rulings came in a bundle of orders in several pending emergency
The agency posted a ‘rumor response’ page this week after claims spread online about its efforts in North Carolina. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a “rumor response” page in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which caused significant damage across western North Carolina late last month. In an update on Oct. 3, FEMA
The agency spent $1.4 billion over the past two years to house illegal immigrants. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not have enough money to make it through the hurricane season, and lawmakers representing areas devastated by Hurricane Helene are voicing their frustration. “We are meeting the
The Environmental Protection Agency said the rules help to prevent exposure among farm workers and their families, as well as neighboring communities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has restored Obama-era measures aimed at protecting people from pesticide exposure on and around farms, it has announced. The measures, published in a final rule on Oct.
The business mogul is set to attend a rally scheduled for Saturday at the Butler Farm Show. Elon Musk said on Oct. 3 that he will attend former President Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform that he mostly owns. Trump
The IAFF’s announcement comes two weeks after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters also declined to endorse a presidential candidate. With only weeks to go until the November election, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), a labor union representing more than 300,000 firefighters and emergency responders across the United States, announced on Oct. 3 that
Vice presidential nominees Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz both went into Tuesday’s debate knowing that their contest, traditionally an afterthought in presidential politics, was going to command the nation’s focus in unusual fashion. Over 43 million viewers were treated to a calm and more substantive conversation about national political issues. Vance and