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People walk past the Prada luxury fashion store on Fifth Avenue in New York City in 2016. Photo credit: Robert Alexander / Getty Images A new bill in the state of New York could require fashion brands to disclose social and climate impacts as well as order these global companies to work toward reducing their environmental impact. The bill, if passed, requires major fashion retailers that make...

The recent spike in inflation has now caused a 6.2 percent rise in penalties for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and other labor laws. On January 14, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and several other labor agencies, acting under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, announced that to account for inflation, pen...

The Utah State Capitol Meeting with legislators ahead of the Utah Legislature’s 2022 general session, Summit County officials identified areas where they think legal maneuvering could once again lead to situations like the 2020 Hideout annexation. Years of legal wrangling over Richardson Flat — wrangling that appears far from being settled — started with a seemingly innocuous amendment int...

Free water and snacks are offered to voters in line in Atlanta, June 9, 2020. Photo: dustin chambers/Reuters I read Karl Rove regularly because he is an astute observer of the political scene. But I’m surprised that in “Biden’s Georgia Election-Law Distortions” (op-ed, Jan. 13) he conflates offering food and drink to voters standing in sometimes long lines in untoward weather with “election...

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Spanish Royals Receive The Diplomatic Corps At Zarzuela Palace Queen Letizia of Spain has dipped into her mother-in-law's royal closet again! The royal joined her husband King Felipe on Monday to attend the reception of the accredited diplomatic corps accredited in Spain at the Royal Palace in Madrid. For the occasion, she wore a Valentino dress — a green skirt topped with a floral blouse fea...

Elon Musk (Photo by Diego Donamaria/Getty Images for SXSW) Elon Musk is a very rich man with a very big platform. And he frequently uses both of those things to aggressively demand that folks do exactly what he wants them to do. Like remember back in season 1 of the pandemic when he was salty that Alameda County shut down the Tesla plant located there to stop the spread of COVID. He kept the ...

BELEN, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico is going to benefit from the federal infrastructure package passed by Congress. Senator Martin Heinrich was in Belen on Tuesday to talk about where some of that money is going. Heinrich chose to visit the Belen Municipal Airport that’s receiving $159,000 from the bill this year and similar amounts in the coming years. It’s among 49 airports in the state to shar...

With this month's Law Firms List, we asked them about their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and the answers varied from firm to firm. But several noted a partner they have in their DEI efforts: Albany Law School. A number of firms on The List said they worked with the school and local bar associations to seek out a more diverse group of internship candidates. Expanding diversity i...

COURTESY PHOTO Legislation signed into law late last year by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer aims to speed up the process for building certain electric transmission lines in Michigan, which a major operator says is crucial in helping to facilitate the clean energy transition. The Transmission Infrastructure Planning Act — sponsored by state Sen. Wayne Schmidt, R-Traverse City, and signed into law on D...