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The tweets compared the COVID-19 advice given to Ontario by its scientific advisers to something out of the Holocaust, calling those experts “public health extremists.”
They came from a professor at Western University’s medical school, Donald Welsh, its chair of molecular neuroscience and vascular biology, who later posted that he wanted to pump the brakes on a public health approach “that deeply troubles me as a scientist.”
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The Biden administration identified environmental justice (“EJ”) as a campaign priority
1 and the Biden-Harris team has continually emphasized its commitment to environmental justice, stating that the administration would “[e]nsure that environmental justice is a key consideration in” among other things “righting wrongs in communities that bear the brunt of pollution.”
2 How the incoming administration translates its policy statements into action that directly impacts the regulated community in the enforcement context remains an open question.
There is a well-established framework for EJ programs going back several decades. EJ has grown to include a range of issues, many of which do not directly implicate enforcement. The Biden administration’s EJ focus will likely be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The differentiators may prove to be the level of focus and resources devoted to EJ issues and the extent to which EJ practice and programs become further embedded
The three Sonic restaurant locations in Lancaster County were permanently closed earlier this month by their franchisee, but the Oklahoma-based drive-in burger chain said it hopes to eventually resume operations here.
The closure of Sonic restaurants in Mount Joy, Lancaster and Brownstown was effective Dec. 16, according to notices filed with the state. In all, 75 employees lost their jobs.
The three restaurants were opened between 2006 and 2008 by a partnership that included Donald Welsh, a Malvern businessman. In series of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Welsh said the restaurant closed after an unsuccessful attempt to find buyers.
10 Sonic Drive-In locations close in Pa. due to ‘sudden and unexpected’ circumstances
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
The Sonic Drive-In on Linglestown Road in Susquehanna Township closed last year. That location is pictured above. Recently, 10 other Sonic Drive-In locations closed in the state including three in Lancaster County. (Photo by Teresa Bonner)
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Ten Sonic Drive-In locations closed in Pennsylvania last week.
A Sonic Drive-In franchisee filed a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice last week for the 10 locations. The Lehigh Valley’s only Sonic Drive-In on Airport Road in Allentown is not among the closures.
The franchisee said in the WARN notice that the closures are due to unforeseen challenges to normal business operations. The WARN notices were dated Dec. 15 and the closing of the locations were effective as of Dec. 16.