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New analyses and reporting in 2024–2025 show global plastics recycling remains stubbornly low: studies put the global recycling rate at about 9% (under 10%) and recycled content in new plastic at roug...
When President Joe Biden left office on January 20, 2025, multiple government and market data sources show the national average price for regular gasoline was about , with contemporaneous market track...
Donald Trump publicly announced plans to withhold federal payments from “sanctuary cities” and the states that host them, and his administration has already frozen or sought to terminate specific gran...
Claims that a single wind turbine requires "one million pounds" of concrete are exaggerated compared with industry reporting: typical onshore foundations for modern multi‑MW turbines use on the order ...
Yes — federal agencies and Congress have funded and directed research on geoengineering in recent years. Congress in 2022 directed OSTP with NOAA, NSF and DOE to develop a five‑year plan on “solar and...
Kent Frantzve is described in available reporting as an Arizona-based businessman and defense‑adjacent consultant who founded a private investment firm and has worked in earned‑value management (EVM) ...
Dual citizenship alone does not legally bar a person from serving in the U.S. House or Senate, but it raises recurring concerns about “divided loyalties” and transparency that have prompted proposed d...
U.S. law enacted in 2024 bars routine imports of Russian uranium but allows waivers through Jan. 1, 2028, and companies have obtained licenses to receive Russian low‑enriched uranium in 2024–2025 . Mu...
There is no authoritative single count of how many times President Trump has “acted unlawfully” in his current term because unlawfulness is a legal determination made case-by-case by courts, and many ...
Reporting shows two different companies named AzTech/Aztech: a U.S.-based Earned Value Management (EVM) consultancy, AzTech International, lists a Dana Point, California headquarters (25132 Oceanknoll...
Federal judges across multiple cases have found that actions by President Trump or his administration violated constitutional provisions — most frequently the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments a...
The available analyses converge on a clear finding: , with multiple pieces pointing to large Pentagon and national defense allocations even when the exact figures differ across documents . Secondary l...
The available reporting attributes the most direct and quantifiable impacts of the Trump administration’s recent funding actions to , especially Department of Energy (DOE) grants and large infrastruct...
An official notice that a final adjudication has cleared and full hiring paperwork will be issued can arrive anywhere from a few weeks to more than a year after an entry‑on‑duty (EOD) date, depending ...
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 is a sweeping, multi-topic reconciliation law that channels roughly hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy and climate programs, reforms tax rules ...
The record assembled by courts, legal groups and congressional Democrats shows repeated presidential actions that courts and scholars have found or argued to be unconstitutional—or that prompted legal...
No U.S. court has issued a definitive, widely accepted ruling that former President Donald J. Trump personally violated the Constitution as a direct, adjudicated finding of his individual, constitutio...
The federal government is not uniformly “forcing” coal-fired power plants to close; instead, a mix of stricter Environmental Protection Agency rules that effectively require heavy emissions controls a...
Jimmy Carter was the first to install solar panels on the White House — 32 solar thermal panels were placed on the West Wing roof in the summer of 1979 and dedicated June 20, 1979 . Those panels were ...
Westinghouse has faced litigation and regulatory entanglements over alleged improper transfers of its nuclear technology and earlier project-related misconduct: a U.S. federal court dismissed Westingh...