The nationβs health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address the mass layoffs that have gutted oversight of tobacco and vapes, food safety and drug reviews.
Medicare spending on βskin substitutesβ reached $10 billion last year. A leading seller made a large donation to President Trumpβs election campaign.
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.
President Trump signed several executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving the coal industry. But a major coal revival seems unlikely, some analysts say.
New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters.
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.
President Trump signed several executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving the coal industry. But a major coal revival seems unlikely, some analysts say.
In his first few weeks, President Trump has frozen climate spending, shaken up staffing at agencies like the E.P.A. and set off a wave of legal challenges.
The acting chair, Mark Uyeda, is directing the Securities and Exchange Commission to pause its legal defense of a rule requiring companies to make climate disclosures.
Federal prosecutors and securities regulators have gone after large companies for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits them from bribing foreign officials.
Goldman Sachs will drop a demand that corporate boards of directors include women and members of minority groups as financial firms backpedal from D.E.I. promises.
Speaking in Paris at an artificial intelligence summit, the vice president gave an America First vision of the technology β with the U.S. dominating the chips, the software and the rules.
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