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Putting the Biden Proposal to Work: A Response to the Phenomenology of Conservation Laws in the 21st Century
How this idea is applied will vary from place to place, Dasgupta said, but now there is a vocabulary and method for addressing the underlying issues. The Biden proposal points to the fact that failing to account for nature’s bounty led to the destruction of our nation’s natural assets. Dasgupta called the proposal “a fine piece of work,” but he said that he wasn’t confident it would be put into effect, or that his ideas more broadly would be understood fast enough to prevent disaster. “We’re in a firefighting situation,” he said. Extreme weather events are happening regardless of when we speak.
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The Government Accountability Office turned down the assignment of a team by DOGE
US President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to embed government employees with private nonprofits that are not considered government agencies, a report said. The Department of the Interior’s Office of Federal Archaeology (DOFE) has sought embedded staff from organizations such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Vera Institute of Justice, the report added.
The labor watchdog is investigating the claims afterNPR reported them
US House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat Elijah Cummings has said that the Department of Government Efficiency’s “attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan branch of government” is a “direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers”. Earlier, Cummings had written to the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to express their concerns about DOGE’s activities.
Donald Trump wants to weaken protections against chemicals in drinking water
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday said it’s “disappointed” with President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to withdraw draft rules that would have banned certain types of “forever chemicals” from drinking water in the country. However, the EPA also said that it’ll continue implementing the rules under current circumstances. The rules were put into effect last year.
Republicans have a critical period this week in order to deliver on the Trump agenda
The US House Ways and Means Committee has approved a broad tax plan that would extend President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts till 2025 at a cost of $1.5 lakh crore. The committee also approved a new type of trust called a “MAGA account”, which stands for “money account for growth and advancement”. The bill will now go to the House of Representatives.
3 Trump officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
US President Donald Trump said that he has asked Syria’s interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa to end his relationship with Israel by signing up to the Abraham Accords, a deal brokered by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran. “It’s my honour to remove sanctions because of…request from Saudi Arabia and Turkey,” Trump said. This comes after Trump announced the lift of sanctions on Syria.
The most common drugs are stored in case of Trump tariffs
The US has not asked for a better price for drugs, according to PhRMA, an industry group. This comes after US President Donald Trump said that he would “look into” tariffs on foreign drugs and biologics. However, PhRMA added, “The Administration is right to use trade negotiations to force foreign governments to pay their fair share for medicines.”