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Beautycounter CEO wants more regulation for safer products

by Kai Ryssdal , Bridget Bodnar and Paulina Velasco
Mar 1, 2018
"I set out to get safer products into the hands of everyone," Gregg Renfrew says.
“You may buy something that says all natural or botanical or pure, but it may be none of the above, and so consumers are misled by companies today,” says Beautycounter CEO Gregg Renfrew.
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Shouldn’t a company have to tell you when it’s been hacked?

by Molly Wood
Mar 1, 2018
Here are three reasons why there should be breach-notification law.
In this photo illustration, a virtual map of the internet is projected onto a woman in London.
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Cities find few regulatory answers for industrial odors

by Sarah Whites-Koditschek
Feb 8, 2018
An Arkansas town has little authority over smells it says comes from a meat-rendering plant.
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Senate wrestles with consequences of Paygo Act on the tax reform bill

by Kimberly Adams
Nov 29, 2017
It looks like the Senate is going to vote on its ever-in-flux tax plan this week. Even though this bill could add up to $1.5 trillion to the deficit, there are consequences beyond just adding to the national debt. The Senate has something called pay-as-you-go rules, which basically say it has to offset revenue losses […]
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Tax think tanks are having a moment

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Nov 29, 2017
With Congress working on a tax reform bill, demand for tax theories is way up.
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Rep. Jackie Speier: When it comes to sexual harassment, "we need to clean up our collective act"

by Kai Ryssdal , Sean McHenry and Bridget Bodnar
Nov 29, 2017
"I'm having women come up to me and say, 'thank you so much.' And then they're telling me stories, stories that never get even heard because they never file complaints," Rep. Jackie Speier tells us about her efforts to change how sexual harassment allegations are handled in Congress.
Rep. Jackie Speier speaks during a House Administration Committee hearing on Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Congressional Workplace on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2017.
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White House requests $44 billion in disaster aid from Congress. Now the negotiations begin

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 20, 2017
Texas, Florida, and especially Puerto Rico say they need tens of billions of more in funding to help recovery efforts. But how do economic cost estimates from a disaster get turned into legislation?
U.S. Army soldiers pass out food, provided by FEMA, to residents in a neighborhood without grid electricity or running water on October 17, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico.
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Congress debates easing regulations on self-driving cars

by Adam Allington
Jul 19, 2017
The measure would be the first significant federal legislation aimed at speeding self-driving cars to market.
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Hey, let's crowdsource this California law!

by Katie Orr
Mar 13, 2014
An assemblyman in California wants citizens to use the wiki model to draft legislation.
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Report: Plain Writing Act fails to live up to its name

by Jeff Horwich
Jul 23, 2012
About a year ago a law went into effect called the Plain Writing Act, meant to compel federal agencies into communicating with the public in a more accessible way. Now a nonprofit has come out with its first report card based on the act, and most agencies are not doing very well.
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