The National Labor Relations Board has approximately 17,000 open unfair labor practice investigations on hand, including almost 10,000 cases that have been pending review for more than six months, according to an agency official.

When the US Department of Transportation launched the Reconnecting Communities program in 2021, it represented a landmark for the scholars and community advocates who have long sounded the alarm about the social and environmental costs of urban freeways.

Texas Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock unlawfully decertified thousands of women- and minority-owned contractors from a decades-old program intended to support “economically disadvantaged groups” in state contracting, a new lawsuit alleges.

The Trump administration’s approval of a highway construction through a Mojave desert tortoise habitat in Utah was temporarily blocked by a federal judge who ruled the Interior Department didn’t sufficiently analyze route alternatives.

Amid a worldwide resurgence of interest in nuclear energy, cracks are showing in California’s 50-year-old moratorium on the technology as artificial intelligence spikes electricity demand and the state struggles to meet its climate goals.

The Labor Department’s ever-shifting standards for defining independent contractors, combined with US Supreme Court precedent weakening agency authority, will likely diminish the impact of new Trump rulemaking on gig worker litigation.