Tag: Policies & Impacts

IN-DEPTH: Majority of US Power Grid Faces ‘Elevated Risk’ of Summer Outages, Warns Reliability Watchdog

May 18, 2023
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More than two-thirds of North America could see electrical outages when temperatures spike this coming summer because utilities in many areas do not have sufficient reserve generation capacity to meet surges in demand. According to an annual summer reliability assessment published on May 17 by the watchdog North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the power grid…

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IN-DEPTH: Power Grid Facing ‘Elevated Risk’ of Summer Outages, Warns Reliability Watchdog

May 18, 2023
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More than two-thirds of North America could see electrical outages when temperatures spike this coming summer because utilities in many areas do not have sufficient reserve generation capacity to meet surges in demand. According to an annual summer reliability assessment published on May 17 by the watchdog North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the power grid…

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VA Seeking $16.6 Billion More in Funding Amid Processing Backlog for Toxin Exposure Claims

May 18, 2023
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At the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing on May 17 to review the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 2024 budget and advance appropriations for 2025, a priority issue was the VA’s request for more funding to maintain and increase staff to process payment claims for veterans who have suffered injury or illness from exposure to toxins…

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$1.7 Trillion Dollar Federal Agency Still Handing Foster Children Garbage Bags for Their Belongings

May 18, 2023
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a $1.7 trillion operation budget for the next fiscal year, a 12 percent increase over its already enormous annual budget. The agency seeks billions more in taxpayer dollars to fund newly-proposed expenditures, including a sexual gender minority research office and grants to abortion providers. However,…

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Agency With $1.7 Trillion Budget Giving Foster Kids Garbage Bags for Their Belongings

May 18, 2023
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a $1.7 trillion operation budget for the next fiscal year, a 12 percent increase over its already enormous annual budget. The agency seeks billions more in taxpayer dollars to fund newly-proposed expenditures, including a sexual gender minority research office and grants to abortion providers. However,…

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Texas Close to Passing ‘Save Women’s Sports Act’ Banning Transgender Athletes at Collegiate Level

May 17, 2023
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The Republican-led Texas legislature is on the verge of banning biological males identifying as female from competing in women’s collegiate sports. Texas House Republicans withstood multiple attempts by Democrats to scuttle or weaken Senate Bill 15, called the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” when it was presented for a second reading and vote on May 17….

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National Archives Admits Every Administration Since Reagan Has Mishandled Classified Documents

May 17, 2023
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Mishandling of classified documents by recent presidents has been the norm, not the exception, according to newly declassified testimony from a House Intelligence Committee hearing with National Archives’ staff. William Bosanko, the agency’s chief operating officer, told Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) during the March 1 hearing that every “administration from Reagan forward[,] we have found…

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Appeals Court Seems Skeptical of Biden Admin Arguments in Favor of Abortion Pill

May 17, 2023
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A federal appeals court appears skeptical of Biden administration arguments given on May 17 that a lower court ruling overturning a decades-old U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of abortion pill mifepristone was wrongly decided. The case is one of many that have followed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in June…

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EPA’s Absence From House EV Hearing Raises Eyebrows

May 17, 2023
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A former Department of Transportation general counsel under Donald Trump questioned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) absence from a House hearing on the agency’s expansive new tailpipe emissions standards. “I would expect they probably briefed the press about the rule when they published it so that they could get favorable stories in the press, so…

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[PREMIERING NOW]: Can Americans Still Defend Themselves Without Getting Arrested?

May 17, 2023
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If someone you love were threatened, or even physically attacked, do you have the right to defend them? And even more so, when police are being defunded and when criminals are being released on the streets, do you have a right to protect yourself? Do you have to just let things happen? Do you just…

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