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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Federal regulators have approved two major natural gas pipeline expansions in Mississippi and Louisiana, adding 1.8 billion cubic feet per day of delivery capacity that will supply Southeastern industrial customers and an LNG export dock in the New Orleans area.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel and rejected constitutional claims from Jackson residents who say city officials exposed them to contaminated drinking water and misled them about its safety.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - Mississippi’s statute shielding health care professionals from personal injury or wrongful death claims during the COVID-19 pandemic cannot stop a wrongful death lawsuit unless there’s no question that plaintiff’s claims “were attributable to the limiting effects of COVID-19 on healthcare resources,” the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Free market state policy group the American Legislative Exchange Council Wednesday released its fourth edition of States That Work, its report ranking states according to their labor policy.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A Pennsylvania-based free market think tank released its latest report grading state public sector labor laws on Tuesday, tracking how government unions have worked to advance pro-union legislation at the state level in the wake of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due to public concerns of political bias.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Mississippi is set to receive nearly $189 million over the next decade as part of a multi-state settlement with Meta that will also impose new limits on how minors use Facebook and Instagram.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are ongoing nationwide, including in the southeastern states of Georgia and Mississippi.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Mississippi, Wyoming and Arkansas lead the nation in car crash fatalities, according to a new report
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Federal regulators on Friday approved a combined multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline expansion crossing Mississippi and Alabama primarily intended to feed growing energy markets in Georgia.
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Reporting from The Center Square
“What is a think tank?” is a question I get asked all the time.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched investigations Tuesday into five medical schools nationwide to determine whether their admissions practices violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin.
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