The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agency’s efforts to align online content with the new administration’s values. When the EPA announced on April 28 that its site was “undergoing changes that reflect […]
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has chosen to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, the first step in a broader effort by Republicans to change the way the agency evaluates the scientific basis for its regulations. The move could significantly change the […]
The tech world is gearing up for a showdown over the Obama-era net neutrality rules.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai last week floated his plan to roll back the rules in a meeting with broadband industry lobbyists. A tech industry… http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/2004/feed
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is wasting little time undoing Obama-era regulations.In a little over two months as chair, he’s scaled back a program on internet subsidies, ended a probe into companies’ phone data plans and scrapped a report on broadband… http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/2004/feed
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it’s getting to work cutting down its regulatory footprint in line with President Trump’s agenda.Earlier this year, President Trump directed all executive branch agencies to eliminate two regulations for every… http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/2004/feed
Democratic lawmakers are asking the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to delay a vote on his proposal to reform the market for business data services.Business data services (BDS) refer to the high-speed data lines that hospitals,… http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/2004/feed
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request to review its decision upholding the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulations.The victory for net neutrality supporters comes just days after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced… http://thehill.com/taxonomy/term/2004/feed
Tech is enduring a widespread public relations crisis. But not Amazon. The post Teflon Amazon, Where Bezos Gets Rich and Bad News Never Sticks appeared first on WIRED. https://www.wired.com/category/business/feed/
Think Salesforce, but for homelessness. The post NYC’s New Tech to Track Every Homeless Person in the City appeared first on WIRED. https://www.wired.com/category/business/feed/
By focusing on advanced manufacturing, Apple’s putting a billion dollars into the future of manufacturing, not the past. The post Apple’s Billion-Dollar Investment Provides a Blueprint for US Manufacturing appeared first on WIRED. https://www.wired.com/category/business/feed/