By: Natasha Geiling, Source: Think Progress. A controversial Wyoming law is under legal fire after a broad coalition of environmental, justice, and animal rights groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday. The law, known as Senate File 12, or the Data Trespass Law, makes it illegal for anyone to collect data on public or

By: Thomas Frank, Source: USA Today. The U.S. government has drastically understated the number of people killed in high-speed police car chases, potentially by thousands of fatalities over several decades, a USA TODAY investigation shows. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationoverlooked at least 101 motor-vehicle deaths in 2013 that were related to a police chase, according to a

A trade group, backed by oil and chemical giants, denied it was behind a campaign to block regulations of potentially toxic flame retardants. But an insider has finally come clean. By: David Heath, Center for Public Integrity; Source: The Daily Beast.The chemical industry’s powerful trade group, the American Chemistry Council, has long maintained that it had nothing

Source. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law on Tuesday a measure that blocks local ordinances against hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” The move is in response to a fracking ban passed by voters in November in the town of Denton. “This law ensures that Texas avoids a patchwork quilt of regulations that differ from

By: Ari Phillips, Source: Think Progress. Duke Energy plead guilty to nine federal misdemeanors related to illegally discharging pollution from coal ash ponds in North Carolina on Thursday afternoon, and agreed to pay $102 million in fines and restitution. Federal prosecutors charged Duke with the nine violations of the Clean Water Act in February,asserting that

White officer followed African American Ernest Satterwhite, 68, home last year and ensuing shooting was caught on dashcam By: Associated Press in SC, Source: The Guardian. When a white police officer in South Carolina chased a black man nine miles by car, then shot him to death in his driveway last year, the shooting apparently