Author Archives: Jerri-Lynn Scofield
How This Oil Refiners Group Rallied GOP Governors’ Support for Trump’s Rollback of Auto Standards
The story of how oil refiners group marshalled the support of Republican governors behind the Trump administration’s rollback of CAFE auto emissions standards.
Read more...7th Circuit Rules Age Discrimination Law Does Not Include Job Applicants
Seventh Circuit hands down major age discrimination decision holding that federal disparate impact protection does not extend to job applicants and applies to employees only.
Read more...Links 1/27/19
Marshall Auerback: In Antitrust, Size Isn’t Everything
Simply breaking up monopolies via century-old economic remedies recommended by antitrust doctrine is insufficient if it is not accompanied by a rebalancing of economic power.
Read more...Do Not Disturb: The Right to Disconnect
New York’s City Council has scheduled a hearing Thursday to debate a measure to enshrine a right to disconnect – which would bar firms from requiring workers to check e-mail or other electronic communications outside the normal workday unless their contracts specify otherwise.
Read more...Links 1/14/19
Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times
Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.
Read more...Links 1/13/19
Plastic Watch: Ocean Cleanup Array to Arrive Today in Hilo for Necessary Repairs
Ocean Cleanup Array arrives today in Hilo for necessary repairs; not yet clear that the system will succeed in collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Oops, SpaceX to Lay Off 10% of its Employees after Funding Fiasco in November
The LA Times reports that SpaceX, the unicorn startup with a newly minted $30.5 billion “valuation” and dreams of sending humans to Mars shortly, will lay off about 10% of its employees.
Read more...Another Win for Fossil Fuels: EPA to Weaken Basis for Calculating Mercury and Future Environmental Standards
At the behest of fossil fuel interests, Trump’s EPA seeks to change the way of calculating future benefits of environmental rules and thus undermines 2011 mercury emissions standards — even though power plants have already invested to comply with the rules.
Read more...Links 1/4/19
Wolf Richter: Markets Are in a Tizzy. So What Will the Fed Do?
What will the Fed do next, now that investors have finally started to react to its tightening of monetary policy, after years of somnolent money-making?
Read more...Advertising Trade Association Presses for Federal Data Privacy Regulation
Advertising trade group calls for federal data privac regulationy, in an obvious attempt bet that Washington won’t toughen standards nearly as much as California has done and other states are also considering.
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