Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Plastic Watch: Congress Considers Bill to Impose Extended Producer Responsibility, AKA ‘You Break It, You Buy It’

The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act would impose extended producer responsibility.

A Full Scale Attack on Medical Debt

An integrated proposal for ending medical debt.

Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover

Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.

The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?

Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?

Right to Repair Roundup: One Step Forward, One to the Side

A modest civilian advance in the battle over the right to repair – and a brief snippet on how the US military manages creatively to waste resources in the same realm.

EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas

With climate impacts comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study methane reductions emission, with implications for fracked gas US producers.

Climate Change Needs To Be on the Balance Sheet

Serious people are finally calling for serious climate change accounting.

Obama Helped Make Cars More Efficient, but Now They Spew Black Carbon

How regulations to tame cars’ emissions created a new problem.

WSJ Reports: State AGs to Cooperate with Feds to Take on Google?

State AGs to meet with DoJ to discuss cooperating in their respective probes into alleged anti-competitive behavior by Google. Will enforcement actions follow? Time will tell.

This Problem With Fracked Oil and Gas Wells Is Occurring ‘at an Alarming Rate’

Well casing failures are a growing problem for an industry chasing profitability by cutting corners for its shale gas fracking operations.

Local Climate Policy Run Amok, Bellingham Edition

Bellingham, Washington tries to take on climate change….and their well-intentioned plan misses an elephant in the room.

Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast

TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.

Dark Satanic Mills Are Not Just a Historical Artifact: MP Castigates Leicester Fast Fashion Factories

North West Leicesteshirer MP Andrew Bridgen demands answer on contemporary working conditions at local fast fashion factories.

Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments

China announces a ban on single-use plastics, while Malaysia refuses to serve as the world’s waste bin, and returns foreign waste shipments.