Following Hurricane Idalia in Florida's Big Bend last week, a local fire department has warned electric vehicle owners that exposure to salt water can cause the vehicle's batteries to catch fire.
"There is a clear trend: pathogens that fall within the Pentagon's area of interest, such as COVID-19, avian influenza, African swine fever, subsequently become pandemic, and American pharmaceutical companies become the beneficiaries."
"Federal law has long prohibited treating employees differently because of their race," Cotton stated in the letters, reminding the firms of the Supreme Court's recent declaration that "eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."