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Two railway accidents in Southern California kill worker and spill chemical waste A Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway employee on March 3 was crushed to death between two trains at the company’s transit hub located near the border of La Mirada and Buena Park in Southern California. According to the Orange County Fire Authority, rescue workers found the victim mangled in the rail yard shortly after midnight and declared him dead at the scene. While the worker’s identity has not bee...

Alaska’s 2021 cruise ship season, or lack thereof, has ignited new debates about a very old law.  As of now, the season is in limbo. Only five cruise ships plan on coming to Kodiak, compared to nearly 30 in 2019. And that’s nothing compared to places in southeast Alaska like Skagway, Ketchikan or Juneau that see hundreds of boats in a normal summer, but now might not see any.  There are two reasons for this. One, Canada has banned foreign ships with more than 100 passengers from...

Font Size: Editor’s note: We endeavor to bring you the top voices on current events representing a range of perspectives. Below is a column arguing that social media companies should not be allowed to ban Trump. You can read a counterpoint here, where Adrian Moore, vice president at Reason Foundation, and Rebecca van Burken, a policy analyst at Reason Foundation, argue that social media companies, as private entities, have the right to ban whomever they choose. Imagine explaining to a pro-lif...

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Following its December 17 open meeting, FERC issued an order withdrawing and terminating a proceeding that had been opened earlier this year to examine oil pipeline affiliate contracts. FERC initiated that proceeding on October 15, 2020, when it issued a proposed policy statement outlining how FERC would evaluate whether a contract between an oil pipeline carrier and its affiliate resulting from an open season process is just and reasonable and not unduly discriminatory under the Interstate Co...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Remembering Bruce Carver Boynton, anti-segregation fighter and Freedom Ride inspiration December 21, 2020 2:19 PM CDT By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II And Elliott Smith At left, Bruce Carver Boynton in a recent photo. At right, an NAACP Freedom Bus in 1961. | AP and Florida Stat...

E-1 – Omitted E-2 – Cybersecurity Incentives (Docket No. RM21-3-000). Agenda item E-2 may be a new docket relating to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on Cybersecurity Incentives. The NOPR proceeding may expand and formalize the concepts outlined in a Commission staff white paper issued on June 18, 2020, which explored certain transmission incentive policy proposals designed to encourage utility spending on protocols that would ostensibly improve security and compliance with critical ...