Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY 4:30 p.m. EDT August 20, 2015 The investigation into deadly Takata air bags has taken a new turn that, if it bears out, could lead to yet another further expansion of what has become one of the largest recalls in automotive history. Federal investigators are looking into whether new air bags have

Editorial [Source] A proposed plan to rein in carbon emissions from power plants will mark a major step forward for the U.S.’s role in creating a cleaner energy future. The rule, known as the Clean Power Plan, was unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency, in June 2014, and is set to be formalized in the

DENNIS WHEDBEE’S CREW WAS RUSHING to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site, a speck of dusty plains rich with crude in Mandaree, North Dakota. It was getting late that September afternoon in 2012. Whedbee, a 50-year-old derrickhand, was helping another worker remove a pipe fitting on top of

Good news! Yesterday, in a high-profile case involving the safety of highway guardrails, Harman v. Trinity, the court ordered that all the court records in the case be made open to the public. As we’ve explained both on this blog and in our briefing to courts, keeping court documents sealed regarding unsafe products has a

By: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine Originally published on April 9, 2015 One key problem with originalism—the theory that the Constitution should be interpreted as its drafters understood it—is that the men who wrote our constitution had some pretty barbaric views about humanity. The author of the Bill of Rights, James Madison, owned hundreds of

Nearly two dozen major corporations, including Walmart, Nordstrom, and Safeway, are bankrolling a quiet, multistate lobbying effort to make it harder for workers hurt on the job to access lost wages and medical care—the benefits collectively known as workers’ compensation. The companies have financed a lobbying group, the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation