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Lawsuits targeting diversity efforts in science are multiplying

Ars Technica

Around two weeks later, Do No Harm also sued the University of Pennsylvania for its partnership with a database called the Black Doctors Directory , which allows patients to find Black physicians. In August, a conservative activist group sued the Department of Education over the Ronald E. Read full article Comments

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Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Engadget

National chains There is no national electronics recycling law at this time, so you won't find any federal programs to assist you with getting rid of old devices. Consumers in California are not charged the $30 fee, while locations in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan charge the fee but offer a $30 gift card as reimbursement.

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This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable.’ So toxic waste keeps flowing

Fast Company Tech

YUKON, Pa.When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvanias green countryside. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous waste. Read Part I of this story here.

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This Pennsylvania landfill sends radioactive waste into a nearby creek—and fracking has only made it worse

Fast Company Tech

In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted in moss. Colleen ONeil of the Mountain Watershed Association fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfills discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pennsylvania.

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The antitrust case against Google is becoming just another partisan fight

The Verge

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Here’s how Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic.

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