September 14, 2018

Top Political News

• Paul Manafort Pleads Guilty, Agrees To Cooperate With Prosecutors.
• Primary Season Is (Finally) Over. Here Are 5 Things We Learned.
• Congress planning to avert government shutdown
• The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics.

Energy & Natural Resources

• House Sends Water Resources Infrastructure Bill to Senate with Unanimous Vote
• Senators tout Oregon projects in energy, water spending bill.
• Administration announces plan to streamline oil and gas extraction in national forests
• In stormy markup, panel OKs parks, drilling and LWCF bills. E&E News

Indian Affairs

• Murkowski to ‘review further’ Kavanaugh’s tribal views
• Native American Tribes File Lawsuit Seeking To Invalidate Keystone XL Pipeline Permit.

Labor

• NLRB Pushes to Rescind Obama-Era Union Ruling
• Teaming Up to Get Workers Ready for Technology of the Future
• Public Employees’ Pay, Benefits and Rights Become Campaign Issues.

Taxation, Trade, & Defense

• Trump Plans to Rebrand Nafta, Warns Canada
• Trump Wants $200 Billion in China Tariffs Despite Talks, Sources Say
• House panel backs bill to make Trump tax cuts permanent.
• Rettig takes over IRS amid budget challenges, regulatory crunch.

Technology

• The electric scooter boom — and cities’ misguided attempts to squash it — explained
• Vertical Aerospace makes ‘flying cars’ with more grounded aspirations
• Daimler Plots Two-for-One Autonomous Van for City Transport
• Lyft’s Bid to Rule the Streets Now Includes Public Transit

Transportation

• Local Transit Projects Hobbled as Trump Agencies Mum on Funds.
• Transit Advocates: Is the White House Purposefully Delaying Project Funds?
• Who Will Regulate Hyperloop?