Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More

Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.

Sports Desk: Top College Athletes Strike Endorsement Deals; Meanwhile, the NCAA Seeks to Influence Pending Federal Legislation

The NCAA has changed its rules so that student-athletes can profit from commercial endorsement deals that use their names, images, and likenesses.

Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic

In the midst of the pandemic, more than half of U.S. states have passed legislation taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases.

Social Security COLA for 2022 To Be Near 5.8%, Could Match 2009, Biggest Since 1982

Seniors are destined to lose ground with cost of living increases, but how badly will they lag with 2022’s seemingly large boost?

18 Vaccine Experts, Including Top FDA Scientists, Publish Review in The Lancet Saying Current Evidence Doesn’t Support Need for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for the Fully Vaccinated

Top international vaccine experts contend current evidence does not support a need for boosters for the fully vaccinated general population at this time and recommending instead directing doses to previously unvaccinated populations.

EPA Takes Steps to Block Pebble Mine on Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Thus Protecting World’s Largest Sockeye Salmon Run

Biden’s EPA yesterday moved to take steps to block the controversial Pebble Mine, which threatens the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.

Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law

On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.

Waste Watch: New EPA Reports Document Chemical and Plastics Contamination in Compost

In two August reports documenting the presence of PFAS and plastics contaminants in compost, the EPA tags food waste as the source.

US as Failed State: Covid Booster Shot Mess

The booster situation has developed not necessarily to the Biden Administration’s advantage.

An Entire Generation of Americans Has No Idea How Easy Air Travel Used to Be

While air passengers today might someday see the eventual end of the COVID-19 public health security measures, they’re far less likely to see a return to pre-9/11 security levels at airports.

Waste Watch: Russia, UK Adopt Single Use Plastics Bans

Russia and the UK take limited steps to slow the plastics juggernaut.

Neoliberalism Is Dying – Now We Must Replace It

From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?

‘America Has a Monopoly Problem’: Coalition Backs Legislation to Break Up Big Tech

Anti-monopoly interests have proposed a series of bills to give regulators more power, particularly with respect to tech.