Bills to protect pesticide companies from product liability lawsuits targeting pesticides are being considered in statehouses ...

On Feb. 11, 2025, the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District in Durnell v. Monsanto Co., upheld a jury verdict awarding $1.25 million ...

Following International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8, 2025, the poignant findings on gender and hazardous substances in ...

The state Transportation Department will establish a grant program to improve sidewalks around public schools under Senate Bill 141. $38B Highway Backlog: Bill highlights Republican’s highway funding ...

The new Administration under President Trump is now over a month old, but there remains some uncertainty as to how the Administration will ...

Gary Baise, a principal at OFW Law, specializes in Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and ...

Biological executives share whether they have felt any impact from the regulatory slowdown stemming from the U.S. Endangered ...

The first few weeks of President Donald Trump's second term has focused on efforts to reshape the federal government largely through mass firings of federal workers. But he rarely mentioned them ...

Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: relatives cheering their firing. The country’s ...

Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste. The federal job cuts are the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Prosecutors accused Sean “Diddy” Combs” of subjecting employees to forced labor and using physical and psychological threats to maintain control over employees in a superseding indictment ...