December 11, 2020

14 Dec December 11, 2020

Top News

• Senate passes stopgap funding bill to avert shutdown at midnight. CNN
• FDA Panel Endorses Covid-19 Vaccine. Wall Street Journal
• Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC director says. Washington Post
• “It doesn’t have to be this way”: Cities brace for more pain as lawmakers clash over COVID relief bill. CBS News
• Georgia Republicans fired up for Senate runoff despite ‘rigged’ election fears. Reuters
• The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics. Politico

Energy & Natural Resources

• House, Senate approve natural resources bills. E&E News
• The Energy 202: House Democrat concerned Biden’s future interior secretary is already being undercut. The Washington Post
• OPEC and allies agree to historic oil production cut. NBC News
• Russia restarts Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction despite U.S. sanctions. Reuters

Indian Affairs

• Native American Tribes: Risk Census Undercount or Risk COVID. Governing
• Grijalva defends Haaland for Interior. Politico
• Lawmakers vote to return illegally seized tribal land. E&E News
• Study: COVID-19 Mortality Twice as High Among Native Americans. U.S. News

Labor

• US weekly jobless claims rise more than expected to 853,000 as labor-market recovery slows. Business Insider
• Biden Recruiting for ‘Acting’ Roles to Jump-Start Labor Agenda. Bloomberg Law
• U.S. Department of Labor Publishes Final Rule to Implement Legal Requirements for Religious Exemption. US DOL
• Patrick Gaspard to leave George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Axios
• Unemployment Claims Jump, Casting New Shadow Over U.S. Economy. New York Times

Taxation & Trade

• Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Repeatedly Violated The Hatch Act. Forbes
• Brexit: PM and EU say trade deal unlikely by Sunday. BBC News
• Biden picks longtime China critic Katherine Tai as top U.S. trade official. CNBC
• Former Hong Kong Lawmaker Urges U.S. to Punish China’s ‘ATM’: the Banking Sector. U.S. News
• A Letter From 9 Million U.S. Expats to Janet Yellen. Washington Post

Technology

• Uber wants drivers and delivery workers to get priority access to COVID-19 vaccine. Tech Crunch
• Apple CEO Says Most Staff Won’t Return to Office Until June. Bloomberg
• FTC suffering a cash crunch as it prepares to battle Facebook. Politico
• Tech giants to face large fines under Europe’s new content rules. Politico
• China’s Xi Ramps Up Control of Private Sector. ‘We Have No Choice but to Follow the Party.’ Wall Street Journal

Transportation & Infrastructure

• ‘Existential Peril’: Mass Transit Faces Huge Service Cuts Across U.S. New York Times
• Warning of drastic cuts, transit agencies revive push for $32B in federal aid. Politico
• The jet-setters scheming to break all the COVID rules. Daily Beast.
• Keolis to temporarily reduce commuter rail service, citing employee COVID-19 absences. Boston Globe.
• Agencies tap public surveys to gauge transit trends. Smart Cities Dive

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