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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, heading the federal department overseeing farming, food programs, forestry, and rural policy.
A U.S. district judge has blocked USDA's plan to move the Forest Service headquarters and close 23 research facilities until at least 11 December. Judge Vince Chhabria's preliminary injunction preserves the status quo until a ruling, though he noted the relief could be relatively short.
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Trump signed an order Monday letting anyone buy tax-exempt red-dye diesel and said it would save truckers more than $100 per fill-up. How much fleets actually save depends on four federal departments expanding access and on states choosing to suspend their own diesel taxes.
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President Trump plans to let tax-exempt red diesel into on-road vehicles, a 24-cent-a-gallon federal excise cut for drivers. With diesel stocks at a record seasonal low, sellers are better placed than drivers to keep that money.
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The proposal would open more than 44 million acres of national forest to roads and logging on a wildfire-risk argument that published ignition studies do not support.
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WIRED found at least seven America First Policy Institute members detailed into the Census Bureau with access to its data. The August report two of them worked on went out anonymously under the bureau's name.
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The screwworm closure is being unwound while more than 40 cases sit inside Texas and New Mexico. Economists say the relief is not in the price; it is in the discretion Washington now holds.
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