*Staff blow whistle on [UK] Environment Agency that "no longer deters polluters."*

This does not surprise me. The Tory Party is the all-out plutocracy party. Its policy on pollution by businesses is, "Full speed ahead." We've seen the EPA in the US quietly yield to business pressure under past administrations, Republican and Democrat, and then the corrupter converted it into the Environmental Poisoning Agency.

US citizens: call on Biden not to recruit fossil fuel executives for White House activities.

Massachusetts is considering proposed changes for its "right to repair" law for cars.

I think H400 is a step forward — the additional requirements are worth the delay — but more is needed. The law should also require that each new car offer a physical switch to turn off all radio transmission from the car (except when the user asks for an emergency call) and a physical switch to turn off all recording of location data (no matter how it is obtained or computed) and of any data from which locations could be inferred (such as by recording directions of motion or turns made).

I'm going to talk with my state lawmakers about this.

The UK will allow experiments with planting gene-edited crops.

I see no reason why this should be totally forbidden, but each case needs to be checked with care. Almost any wild plant or animal species has the potential to become a dangerous invasive species if it gets to the wrong place, and a gene-edited variety has this no less than a wild variety. Varieties designed to kill "pests" could become threats to wild species, even very plentiful ones. (Pesticides have driven monarch butterflies close to extinction.)

In addition, gene-edited varieties could carry patent pollution that endangers poor farmers and the independence of family farms.

UK schools teach about the effects of drinking alcohol using texts sponsored by the alcoholic beverage companies.