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Jan. 12, 2021 3:56 pm ET WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency is creating higher barriers for regulating the emissions that contribute to climate change, setting new rules that effectively block the federal government from imposing new restrictions on several heavy industries. The agency, which first introduced a proposal to create the higher bar in August, packaged these new standards in a rule making it issued Tuesday. The rule, to be published in the Federal Register Wed...

With the UN’s climate conference due in November this year, asset owners will be cracking down on environmental laggards

Jan. 11, 2021 8:33 am ET MILAN—Claudio Zanon has seen firsthand how less spending on health care in recent years left Italy exposed when the coronavirus began sweeping through his country early last year. Dr. Zanon, who until the end of December was the medical director at a hospital in Como in Italy’s hard-hit Lombardy region, says when the pandemic arrived he didn’t have enough doctors and nurses. Intensive-care unit beds were scarce and there wasn’t a large network of local c...

. Getty Images When it comes to global assets, the currency world stacked up some pretty clear losers this year, starting with the U.S. dollar, as one of the world’s largest economies was brought to its knees by the pandemic. The ICE Dollar Index is down more than 6% for 2020, while the British pound also looks a bit worse for wear. Sterling is down by nearly that much against the euro as negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal have dragged on, though a Christm...

Inconsistencies. peter strzok told us a great deal about bruce ohrs activit ies and what he did and how it was done, and obviously you also had mccabe who was fired for cause, so as we get through these, if you will, statements that contradict each other, we have a reason to have people back to see if they want to correct the record, in other words tell us the truth, and the whole truth this time. maria: but where is the accountability for lying in the first place then? i mean, you know, we keep...

Friend. maria: so many incredible issues going into the mid-term elections not to mention the issues around the department of justice, the fbi, and the president now attacking jeff sessions in a louder voice. greg jarret, you wrote the book the russia hoax your thoughts on the presidents tweets this week , basically pointing out that jeff sessions according to the president is not doing his job. >> well the president is absolutely correct. first, at the outset, jeff sessions betrayed the preside...

Party that has this much results with an opposition of just resistance with an idea they are going to abolish i.c.e., impeach the president, who wants that much chaos going into the future nothing will get donald they just want reverse. nancy pelosi says she wants reverse the tax cuts so you will pay more in the future. maria: she did say that. i was shocked she would actually admit that. look i think the markets are giving this president and congress the benefit of the doubt in terms of the tra...

With great class and there will never be another one like him and i say that in a very positive way and i fought with him on many occasions and loved him but he was an extraordinary human being and the country was very lucky to have him. maria: he was a maverick and when he named sarah palin as his runningmate initially i thought it was brilliant. >> in a way it was brilliant for about three weeks she drove the agenda and again, he was the most beloved candidate to run for president by the media...

Something else? >> well every race will be different the interesting thing in this race is theres 66 races in the house that are listed as toss-ups or lean one way or the other. only four of those are democrats . most of them are as we have 39 republicans retiring or running for another office the biggest vacancy since 1930, so my sense is youve got to go out and take these new candidates, the democrats, apart and so the issues that we want to run on the economic issues what have you are a littl...

Destruction of evidence under a lawful subpoena, and why hasnt he investigated hillary clinton and her campaign paying a foreigner, a british spy, for information from russians which was then used as a basis for the trump russia investigation and wire tap warrants? all of that should have been done. maria: right and next week bruce ohr the number four guy at the justice department will testify and answer questions behind closed doors. what are you expecting from the bruce ohr testimony, greg? >>...