Alicia Diaz

2 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Sullivan |Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Lauren Rosenthal

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional committee that the US National Hurricane Center was fully staffed even though key positions are going unfilled as hurricane season begins. “There are no openings on the National Hurricane Center. Zero,” Lutnick said during a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday. “We are fully staffed. We are fully ready for hurricane season.”Yet the center’s website shows at least four meteorologist roles are vacant.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kim Chipman |Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Erin Ailworth |Ilena Peng

After losing their biggest export market due to Donald Trump’s trade wars, US farmers are now counting on the president’s support for biofuels to prevent their next crop from piling up in storage. The administration is set to soon unveil a plan for how much crop-based biofuels will be blended into fossil fuels starting next year.