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Trump EPA makes excuses for polluters

The Trump administration has developed a way to make pollution sound appealing. President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a plan to relax regulations to allow Americans to be exposed to more dirty air. But the agency has dressed it up to look like it’s just advocating the use of stronger, more transparent science. The policy, sometimes called the ...

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TikTok is aiming at a bigger audience than US senators

As US political opposition hardens to TikTok, the globally popular video app from Beijing-based ByteDance Inc., some inside the company want to find ways to make the business appear to be less Chinese. That’s a smart move, aimed less at critics in Congress and more at two other East Coast power centers: Madison Avenue and Wall Street. TikTok delivers short, ...

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Watch for sparks as jet engines hit their limits

Earlier this week, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Chris Bryant examined the ongoing troubles for advanced jet engines used on today’s commercial airliners. These engines now seem to be reaching their technical limits, and as Bryant says, we may be asking too much of the technology. That’s not great news for the companies making those turbines, or for those flying the aircraft. ...

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