A group of Democratic senators are calling on the Biden administration to go further to address methane emissions from oil and gas production, saying the current proposed rule is “insufficient.” Specifically, the lawmakers say it does not adequately address flaring — a process by which excess gas is burned off, releasing planet-warming methane into the...
California lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve an amended version of the 2023 state budget bill but will continue discussing the final terms of the legislation with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The $311.7 billion spending plan, which materialized earlier this week, is the result of extensive negotiations among State Assembly and State Senate Democrats. Per California’s...
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday recommended a major update to coronavirus booster vaccines for the fall. The panel of outside scientific advisers unanimously voted that the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the XBB variants that are now dominant worldwide, rather than XBB and...
The formation of the Earth may have looked more like a fast, inevitable landslide than like a slow series of occasional cataclysms, as scientists have long theorized, according to findings published Wednesday in Nature. If it did, Earth-like planets could be far more common than previously thought, the findings suggest. The paper represents a groundbreaking revision of the conventional understanding of how the Earth was created...
The Biden-Harris reelection campaign announced that Michael Tyler, the former national press secretary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), will be its communications director. Tyler was deputy director of communications for Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) 2020 presidential bid and, along with being DNC national press secretary, was chief of staff to then-Chairman Tom Perez during...
Following nearly a weeklong stalemate in the House and turmoil within the GOP, federal lawmakers came together for a game of baseball Wednesday at Nationals Park. Under the watchful eyes of more than 20,000 constituents, Republicans took the game for the third year in a row by 10 runs. When the final score of 16-6 was announced...
Political organization No Labels committed to end its third-party push if polling shows President Biden “way” ahead of former President Trump next spring. No Labels, a bipartisan group, has been pursuing an effort to launch a “unity ticket” in the 2024 presidential election that would include a Republican and a Democrat “if the two parties...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reassigned its chief medical officer after an 8-year-old migrant child died in Border Patrol custody last month, according to The Washington Post. Chief Medical Officer David Tarantino has reportedly received a temporary assignment elsewhere within the agency. “During his years of service to the CBP Office of the...