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African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Puerto Ricans were tested to see if they would fare differently than whites against mustard agents.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
One source of governmental income could be carbon taxes, of course, sometimes called “paying the social cost of carbon” — a phrase that is interesting, because the society indicated here is not simply humans but the entire biosphere. That’s an appropriate expansion of our conception of the social.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
In 2021 the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required improved rear underride guard performance, but the resulting NHTSA regulation is weaker than most industry standards and notably lacks standards for single-unit trucks, such as dump trucks. In response, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have introduced the STOP Underrides Act (S. 605), which would require rear, side, and front underride guards on all commercial no vehicles, including single-unit trucks.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
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