Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20

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The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes, solidifying conservative policy objectives that will make it much harder for the incoming Biden administration to advance its agenda. (via propublica)

Labor Department rule would make it easier for companies like Uber to withhold benefits by classifying workers as independent contractors instead of full employees. Both proposals had a truncated public comment period of only 30 days. A spokesman said the agency considers all comments regardless of how long the period lasts and that the department is working to complete all regulations on its agenda.Such shortcuts still might not be enough to finish some new rules that are just starting out now.

Spokesman Tom Super called the proposal “the most deliberative and studied proposed rule that has ever been issued. It spans three decades, four administrations—Republican and Democrat—countless scientific studies and various court cases.” The performance of those plants could equip the USDA to argue that the speed limit should go up in all of them. Although the agency has not yet released its formal justification for the new proposal, officials have referenced a that concluded that inspectors in plants with faster speeds did not detect higher average levels of salmonella contamination.

 

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