How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars todayheadline

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Efficiency standards for home appliances were once the conversational equivalent of beige — neutral, but aggressively uninteresting. But as political ...

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‘Make showers great again’: Why Trump’s fighting bathroom water pressure

April 10, 2025

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EXPLAINERTrump’s new executive order declares showerheads will not be ‘weak and worthless’ any more. But what about water bills?US President ...

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Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying anyway todayheadline

April 10, 2025

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In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department’s plan to ...

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Why Trump’s order targeting state climate laws is probably illegal todayheadline

April 9, 2025

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President Donald Trump continued dismantling U.S. climate policy this week when he directed the Justice Department to challenge state laws ...

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Musk vs Navarro: Is the Trump team divided on tariffs?

April 7, 2025

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United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on his tariffs plan, even as markets crash around the world. However, ...

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95% of sponsored influencer posts on X/Twitter were not disclosed todayheadline

April 4, 2025

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New research in the peer-reviewed journal Marketing Science has found that 95% of influencer posts on Twitter (now X), which are sponsored, ...

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The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language todayheadline

April 4, 2025

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Jim Lively wants to install rooftop solar panels on his family’s local food market, just minutes from the Sleeping Bear ...

Maps showing fire hazard severity zones in California

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1 in 8 Californians live in the most dangerous wildfire zones todayheadline

March 28, 2025

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Five years ago, California was reeling from the Camp Fire, the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century. State lawmakers responded ...

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Publishers, journalists and film producers attack copyright plans for EU AI Act todayheadline

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Trump wants to wind down FEMA. Could states fill the gap? todayheadline

March 27, 2025

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President Donald Trump appears to be serious about getting the federal government out of disaster response. Earlier this week, his ...

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