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The Trump administration has stacked a top chemical safety board with industry-aligned scientists
who have a range of financial conflicts of interest and stand to profit from deregulation,
public health advocates say.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s science advisory committee on chemicals (SACC)
is slated to review research for dozens of toxic chemicals during the new members’ terms.
At least 13 proposed Trump appointees are probably conflicted on the che…

Trump officials accused of stacking top chemical safety board with industry ‘mouthpieces’
Public health advocates warn of conflicts of interests and say panel likely to provide justification for key rollbacks

Why are conservatives so supportive of industries and products that create these problems? Do they want people to get sick? Incur larger medical bills?
Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news…

Why are conservatives so supportive of industries and products that create these problems? Do they want people to get sick? Incur larger medical bills?
Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news…

Feds cancel conservation group's Montana bison grazing leases • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/05/13/repub/feds-cancel-conservation-groups-montana-bison-grazing-leases/

Pentagon Abruptly Cancels Deployment to Europe as Part of Trump's Drawdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-abruptly-cancels-deployment-to-europe-as-part-of-trumps-drawdown-7365b3b5?st=PGgnm2&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p28#a260514p28

Government looking to regulate "agentic payments".
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/modernising-payment-services-regulation

Modernising Payment Services Regulation
A consultation on the government's approach to modernising payment services regulation.

@… which version of ConsoleKit2?
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There’s always a “bUT FrEe spEEcH” outcry about things like this, and…look, the aforementioned student outcry •is• free speech. Not only that, the •event cancellation• is free speech.
And not only that!! This part even well-meaning, democracy-minded people totally botch: this initial scheduling, the backlash, the argument over whose voice gets amplified and in what space, the ultimate cancellation? All that is the •bedrock• of free speech.
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EPA may ease regulation of chemical plastic recycling, and environmentalists worry
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-epa-ease-chemical-plastic-recycling.html

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out,
which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.
Mayor Karen Bass originally committed to the forum but dropped out last week,
saying she would instead travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding on a variety of issues including homelessness a…

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out, which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.