The EPA just walked back Hawai‘i’s plan to retire its dinosaur power plants

Twilight Greenaway, Grist

By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.

Kevin Warsh confirmed to US Federal Reserve board in close Senate vote

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, joins Republicans to advance Warsh's confirmation.

Trump exempted some of the biggest polluters from air quality rules. All it took was an email

Mark Olalde, Salon

Admin set up an EPA address where companies could get compliance pause simply by sending an email.

“A huge setback”: New EPA directive could weaken hundreds of chemical regulations

Sharon Lerner, Salon

Internal memo shows Trump appointee targeting EPA program that assesses toxic chemicals.

FBI investigating possible links between deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists

Claire Cameron, Scientific American

This announcement from the FBI came after President Donald Trump highlighted the recent deaths of several scientists and government workers who may have had access to sensitive information

DHS funding lapse is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

Brennan Leach, Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News

The partial shutdown — the rest of the federal government is being funded — hit a record 44th day on Sunday.

FCC approves merger of local television owners Nexstar and Tegna as two lawsuits seek to block it

The Associated Press, NPR

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it had approved the merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna, the same day that two lawsuits trying to block the deal were announced.

TSA workers miss a full paycheck, while travelers keep paying airport security fees

Joel Rose, NPR

Many TSA workers received no money in their paychecks Friday as the partial DHS shutdown drags on. Fees paid by airline passengers keep piling up, even as airport security officers work without pay.

Imagine If the Trump EPA Cared Enough to REDUCE Our Daily Exposure to Carcinogens

Jim Vorel, Jezebel

The EPA's sole function is to protect Americans from environmental health threats, and yet again and again it backs carcinogens instead.

Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement

Joe Fay, Theregister.com

Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops The US Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, has pressed the National Science Foundation’s CIO to improve how the agency plans, manages, and procures technology.…

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in DOGE shakeup

Joe Fay, Theregister.com

CIO says sweeping reorg followed deep cuts as agency pushes cross-functional teams and AI Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed ye…

Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on

Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

Badged versions of TP-Link routers are supplied to US customers by more than 300 ISPs, making them the most widely used Wi-Fi routers in the country, found in millions of US homes. It therefore caused grave concern when security researchers at Microsoft fo…

FAA says air traffic control overhaul management contract worth $1.5 billion

By David Shepardson, Yahoo Entertainment

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday its contract with national security firm Peraton, the ...

What to know about the partial government shutdown, now in its 3rd day

Justin Gomez, Lauren Peller, John Parkinson, ABC News

More than 10,000 Federal Aviation Administration workers are furloughed.

Trump nominates Kevin Warsh to replace Powell as fed chair

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Nomination comes as Trump heaps pressure on Powell to cut interest rates; Warsh to face challenging Senate confirmation.

USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis

JESSICA A. BOTELHO | The National News Desk, Turn to 10

The USDA announced that the agency suspended federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis "effective immediately."

Trump Administration Shutters NASA's Goddard Library

Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE

The Goddard Space Flight Center Library in Greenbelt, Md. reportedly closed on Friday, Jan. 2

DOGE Cuts and Borked Code Delay Important Energy Report

AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo.com

The ghost of Elon continues to haunt the federal government.

At least 15 newly-released Epstein files have disappeared from DOJ's website, records show

CBSNews, CBS News

The episode has deepened concerns that had already emerged from the Justice Department's much-anticipated document release.

Pulte and other Trump loyalists at mortgage regulator clash with Fannie and Freddie staffers

Yahoo Entertainment

US Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as new NASA administrator

jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner) , Josh Dinner, Space.com

More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.

What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE

Lauren Feiner, The Verge

Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they did there. On February 24th, advocacy group Freq…

Scores of government statisticians are gone, leaving data at risk, report says

MIKE SCHNEIDER, Yahoo Entertainment

The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. One agency lost 95% of its staff, while others...

Trump’s EPA Plans to Raise Threshold for ‘Safe’ Formaldehyde Exposure

Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict.