Category Archives: Economy
Vaccinated California employees face workplace restrictions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a move criticized by business groups and hailed by labor advocates, California's workplace regulators on Thursday extended the state's coronavirus pandemic regulations into next year with revisions that employers said could...
Soaring infections rattle Europe, fuel dread about holidays
LONDON (AP) — Soaring infections in Britain driven in part by the omicron variant of the coronavirus rattled Europe on Thursday, prompting new restrictions on the Continent and fueling a familiar dread on both sides of the Atlantic about entering
EPA details push to tighten rules for lead in drinking water
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration took steps Thursday aimed at reducing lead in drinking water, announcing plans to release $2.9 billion in infrastructure bill funds next year for lead pipe removal and impose stricter rules to limit exposure t...
Awash in illegal pot farms, Oregon plans millions for relief
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Theft of water during a drought. Exploitation of immigrant laborers. Intimidation of residents by armed criminals. A Democratic state senator from southern Oregon
Congress approves import ban targeting forced labor in China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators gave final congressional approval Thursday to a bill barring imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove they were produced without forced labor, overcoming initial hesitation from the White House and wha...
House report finds lax federal oversight of Trump’s DC hotel
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency overseeing the lease of the luxury hotel that Donald Trump's family company runs in the nation's capital failed to carry out its basic responsibilities because it never tracked the millions of dollars from
Travel industry pressed regulator on flight refunds in early days of pandemic: emails
The relationship between Canada's airline watchdog and the travel industry is under scrutiny after the release of emails from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in which industry executives pressed regulators to back their position against issuing...
Feds name housing priorities, eye foreign buyers ban on non-recreational residences
Justin Trudeau has handed his housing minister a series of tasks — including some targeting foreign buyers — in an attempt to make home ownership a reality for more Canadians. In a mandate letter sent to Ahmed Hussen on Thursday, the
Court upholds Trump administration’s ban of gun bump stocks
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is the latest to uphold a federal ban on “bump stocks” — devices attached to semiautomatic firearms so that a shooter can fire multiple rounds with a single trigger
Biden’s highway safety pick vows to reduce US traffic deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to run the nation’s highway safety agency pledged Thursday to attack a crisis of fatal car crashes by implementing safety rules to deter impaired driving while scrutinizing fast-emerging automated technologi...
