"Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Driftnet Fishing Bill"
"President Trump on Friday vetoed a bill that would gradually eliminate the use of large-scale driftnet fishing in federal waters off the coast of California."
Source: The Hill, 01/04/2021
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Dems Push Regulator To Scrap Rule Forcing Banks To Serve Oil, Gun Firms
"The chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee and nearly two dozen House Democrats urged a federal bank regulator Wednesday to scrap a potential rule forcing banks to serve oil, gas and firearm companies."
Source: The Hill, 01/04/2021"Trees As A Civil Right: 'All We Have Is Cement And Pavement'"
"When Carmen Storms, 69, looks down at the trees of Melnea Cass Boulevard from her eighth-floor apartment, she thinks of her father, Alvin — twice driven from his home during Boston's urban renewal boom of the 1950s and '60s, when the city used eminent domain to raze the homes and businesses of Black families."
Source: E&E News, 01/04/2021
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