The City of Seattle agreed to settle a lawsuit with business owners and residents over the city's 2020 handling of the so-called autonomous zone protests originally dubbed the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP).
Ohio residents filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against the railroad company Norfolk Southern after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in early February and cast a toxic plume of chemicals over the town and polluted the air and water, according to the lawsuit’s text.
President Joe Biden’s administration is proposing implementing greater restrictions that would make it harder for Americans to get certain medications.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week the availability of $907 million in funding to provide short and mid-term residential options for homeless Californians with drug addiction and serious mental illness.
Researchers from Texas A&M University and Carnegie Mellon University claimed East Palestine, Ohio, residents may face long-term health risks from exposure to harmful chemicals in the train derailment.