After the senate refused to renew the PAT RIOT Act, another bill proposes to "improve" it by giving the surveillance state even more power.

And there's another one.

Low oil prices are cutting back extraction of highly polluting tar sands oil. Protests and public opposition may be helping.

Laws to protect whales apply to drones as well as to aircraft.

This seems correct to me.

Restrictions on smoking in the UK seem to have avoided 11000 hospitalizations of children per year. This is because children are less exposed to second-hand smoke now.

Women were blocked from voting in the most fundamentalist parts of Pakistan.