Energy & Environment — California OKs nation's loftiest offshore wind goal
While California once again spearheads climate targets, the Department of Health and Human Services has launched an environmental justice calculator. Also, President Biden signed the military burn pit bill into law. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. For The Hill, we’re Rachel Frazin and Zack Budry
Read MoreChina says military drills finished, but war prep continues
China officially announced an end to its war games around Taiwan on Wednesday, but said its military would continue with further “training and war preparation.” Beijing’s military exercises were successfully finished and “effectively tested the integrated joint combat capabilities of the troops,” a People Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command spokesperson said, according to The Guardian. China also vowed to continue to m
Read MoreDems punt policing bills beyond August
House Democrats have scrapped a hopeful plan to vote this month on a package of public safety bills amid lingering disagreements between liberals and centrists over law enforcement funding and police accountability. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the move in a letter to fellow Democrats Wednesday afternoon, saying the focus of this week — when the House will return briefly to Washington — should be the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a massive climate, health and tax bill passed by the Senate on Sunday.
Read MoreWalgreens helped fuel San Francisco's opioid crisis, judge finds
Walgreens helped fuel the opioid epidemic in San Francisco by dispensing hundreds of thousands of prescriptions without performing adequate due diligence, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that over the course of a 15-year period, Walgreens pharmacists did not stop or flag suspicious orders, including tens of thousands from doctors with suspect prescribing patterns. "It is more likely than not that Walgreens pharmacies dispensed large volumes of medically illegitimate opioid prescriptions that were diverted for illicit use and that
Read MoreEnd the student loan-acy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other left-leaning pols have often decried the federal government using student loans to profit off of college kids. A new Government Accountability Office report explains why we don’t hear that much anymore: the government has hardly been profiting. Indeed, taxpayers have been getting clobbered. The GAO examined actual and projected revenue and costs of federal Direct Loans — since 2010, the only type of federal student loan — over the last 25 years. It found that projections of
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