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Teslas made in Texas will likely have to leave the state before Texans can buy them

The Verge

Because of state laws banning car companies from selling directly to consumers, Tesla could end up shipping the cars from its Austin factory to other states, before they’re sent back to their Texan buyers. Tesla doesn’t have franchised dealers to protect, but that doesn’t matter to Texas law as it’s currently written.

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How heavy metals get into baby food—and what California is doing to help parents

Fast Company Tech

should soon be able to determine how much lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury are in the food they feed their babies, thanks to a California law, the first of its kind, that took effect this year. I believe the new California law offers a solid first step in giving people the ability to limit the intake of these substances.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

1977: Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first proposed by a UN conference held to address discrimination against Native Americans. Besides looking at state and local government holiday laws, there is another way of looking at the adoption of either Columbus or Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

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What to expect if the EPA revokes this key part of U.S. climate policies

Fast Company Tech

As a law professor , I have tracked federal climate regulations and the lawsuits and court rulings that have followed them over the past 25 years. EPA that six greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA has a duty under the same law to determine whether they pose a danger to public health or welfare.

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What will happen with the Equal Rights Amendment under Trump?

Fast Company Tech

Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) the law of the land.The 28 th Amendment, which declares that Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex, is operative, according to ERA advocates. Gillibrand.

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Senate confirms Trump loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director

Fast Company Tech

The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI, moving to place him atop the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency despite doubts from Democrats about his qualifications and concerns he will do Donald Trump ‘s bidding and go after the Republican president’s adversaries.

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Senators question Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump’s Labor Department pick, on her past pro-union views

Fast Company Tech

A section of the PRO Act would have overturned state right to work laws that give employees the right to refuse to join a union in their workplace. During her opening statement, Chavez-DeRemer described the proposed law as imperfect. I do not believe the secretary of Labor should write the laws.