Inches to one of the country s bedrock environmental laws if finalized federal agencies would no longer have to consider climate change before approving big projects such as oil pipelines and highways N.P.R. s Jeff Brady has more the National Environmental Policy Act or Nepa is 50 years old and requires federal agencies to analyze a project s environmental consequences and also gives the public a chance to comment on government decisions for many years now a wide range of industries have complained that the need for a process is time consuming and expensive the changes expected today are designed to streamline that process but environmental groups say the changes would undermine the intent of the law and make it difficult to plan for the effects of climate change court challenges are expected and the changes are unlikely to be made final before the November election Jeff Brady n.p.r. News Puerto Rico continues to be shaken by earthquakes there have been half a dozen already today some
Atticus I just found out about houseboats what is a do way that last one was confusing because he pronounced the word duet as if he were speaking French do a dad Sterling asked one Sunday afternoon out of the blue What s a shit of how is a ship of you. I love watching Sterling as he comes into contact with the world through words it pleases me to see him puzzling over and parsing his thoughts and experiences in this way I think of the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass who showed us in his autobiography narrative of the life that language is a source not only of immense insight and pleasure but also a key to freedom today s poem is a sale as sale. Ass by Dora Malik n.h. Line of the poem a statement is made and then the very same letters are reconfigured so that something else can be said post becomes stop claims curse becomes claims cures reading the poem aloud I feel a little like one of the witches and Macbeth who speaks nonsense and ends up making sense yes words allow us to sa
More information it can come out. In Los Angeles on results Tuesday is the day I do believe the 17th of December that is always to have you along everybody look I know there are days when we start with this corporate story or that and you probably say C mon it s one lousy company how much of a difference can it really make I mean the American economy is in $1000.00 trillion dollar beast right. Well yes right but we bring you now the Boeing Company which yesterday as you know announced it s going to stop making for a while anyway it s fatally flawed $737.00 Max a problem yes for the company for its suppliers to about which more in a minute but also quite possibly a problem for that 19 trillion dollar beast the American economy this is Marketplace just in whole reports g.d.p. Growth could hit some Boeing induced turbulence before Boeing announces production halt its growing stockpile of undelivered 737 next planes have been boosting g.d.p. Says Tim Quinlan senior economist at Wells Farg
Based affair a watch in center says the group is asking for a slowdown and it will be Election Commission has an opportunity to notify voters back to you of what s going to happen tell them we need you to respond to a conservative legal group that pushed for the voter name removal says is trying to protect the integrity of Wisconsin elections for n.p.r. News I m Chuck Bach in Milwaukee in Haiti there have been months of protests against government corruption N.P.R. s Carrie Kahn reports from Port au Prince Why Haitians are very angry people are upset here about corruption specifically with regards to billions of dollars opponents of the current president John lease says were stolen mismanagement just gon that money was part of a low interest program by Venezuela that provided or oil to its ideological allies and neighbors and there s just no accounting for that money and Haiti is unable to repay the billions now that Prime borrowed N.P.R. s Carrie Kahn despite massive protests Haitian
The president dials chose his road is their duty to investigate is their duty to made the barrier for undoing a national election in a letter sent Sunday Schumer asked McConnell to agree to call for administration officials including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Nick all they need even if McConnell and Schumer do not come to an increment senators can still try to call witnesses once a trial has begun those requests would be subject to a simple majority vote Kelsey smell n.p.r. News Washington the House vote in favor of impeachment is in little doubt but the Senate trial is widely expected to go the other way that s because in the g.o.p. Controlled Senate many lawmakers say they ve already seen all the evidence they need to make up their minds however in an interview with N.P.R. s All Things Considered today Maine Senator Susan Collins says she won t be preg prejudging the case I have not bait up my mind and I think it would be inap