In a country pushing the global envelope by putting its treasury on the blockchain, this may be the place most committed to a crypto-centric future. Among locals, opinion of Bitcoin remains split, according to a handful of beachside conversations and the observations of Bitcoin enthusiasts. They are building a beachhead here, buying up property and […]
In a memo sent to law enforcement officials Wednesday, Acting Attorney General Matt Platkin said departments “may not take any adverse action against any officers because they do or do not use cannabis off-duty,” under New Jersey’s cannabis legalization law passed last year. Joe Cryan have pointed out THC’s detectability in some users’ systems for […]
This week alone, Google put out a 35-page “policy roadmap” intended to reduce electricity emissions. Stripe’s project could be viewed as a distraction from cutting businesses’ actual emissions. The chorus is getting louder: New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who oversees New York State’s $279 billion pension fund, filed solicitations this week urging shareholders of […]
The Cannabis Regulatory Commission yesterday approved seven medical operators who own 13 dispensaries to expand to the recreational market, after a false start last month. SEX ED — Murphy ‘willing to entertain’ revising state sex education standards, by POLITICO’s Carly Sitrin: Two years after New Jersey’s bipartisan state Board of Education approved new student learning […]
Editor’s Note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 5:15 a.m. Some economists — and homebuyers — expect the upward trend to continue, given that Federal Reserve policymakers are poised to aggressively raise interest rates in the coming months in a […]
There are a few tweaks in today’s bill, per POLITICO’s Natalie Fertig, including provisions to bar federal agencies from denying security clearances on the basis of past or current cannabis use. Some Republicans have said they are open to some kind of revaluation of how marjijuana is treated under the law, but this bill, sponsored […]
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut — with a combined population of 33 million — are scrambling to open recreational markets in the coming months. After years of taking a back seat to the West Coast, many industry observers believe that New York City will become the center of the cannabis industry. Even staunchly conservative […]
The emissions credit market needs to grow 15-fold to meet goals set under the Paris Agreement, by some estimates — and could be worth as much as $50 billion by 2030. Mark Kenber is one of the climate policy wonks trying to bring more legitimacy to the market. It has never been more essential to […]
Sandberg and a Google senior vice president ultimately signed the September 2018 agreement, the lawsuit says. 2 players in the online advertising market, was negotiated and approved at the highest levels of both companies. The suit: The states’ suit accused Google of monopolizing the advertising technology market, the tools used to buy, sell and display […]
Editor’s Note: Morning Energy is a free version of POLITICO Pro Energy’s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. Unfortunately, the administration has looked in all the wrong places – repeatedly asking OPEC+ to ramp up crude production, while suggesting that U.S. And as Senators enter discussions with the […]
Fuels made from plant and animal waste are in hot demand as companies that operate planes, trucks, trains and ships want to use them to lower climate impacts. A coalition of truck stop owners and diesel distributors argues that a provision in Democrats’ Build Back Better Act would give the aviation fuel market an unfair […]
PART 1, DONE — President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan, $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law Monday. For a sense of its reach, look at the bill’s cheerleaders: Farmers, automakers, builders, the Sierra Club, unions, the U.S. NOW, PART 2 — The infrastructure act’s climate spending is dwarfed by measures in Democrats’ […]
— Shortly after sunrise on July 22, a dozen or so police officers from across Oklahoma descended on a property about 15 miles north of the Texas border. Two men — Zhimou Chen and Chong Chen — were taken into custody and officials charged Zhimou with cultivation of an illegal controlled substance. They also discovered […]
It took some research for the retired Army sergeant first class to determine he could actually tell the VA he was using cannabis, but even then his doctors couldn’t tell him how to use it safely and effectively. Millions of veterans are self-medicating their war-caused ailments with marijuana, and they are frustrated the VA continues […]
Stock prices have plummeted roughly 45 percent since mid-February, according to the AdvisorShares Pure U.S. Cory Booker of New Jersey — have been adamant that they don’t think banking legislation should be enacted unless it’s paired with much broader changes to federal cannabis policy. Even if that changes, the odds of getting all 50 Democrats […]
OAKLAND, Calif. Requiring vaccines is more complicated in sectors like retail and agriculture, where employers risk losing workers in a tight labor market and vaccine enforcement could be expensive. But the diverging policies could widen the pandemic’s already uneven toll by leaving frontline workers, many from low-income communities of color, vulnerable to the highly contagious […]
Today, house prices are surging, stocks have continued their stratospheric rise, and banks have more cash than they know what to do with. That’s what a growing number of lawmakers, investors and even some Fed officials themselves are demanding to know. “There’s no justification for the Fed to maintain at current levels, and doing so […]
The president also addressed the shadow that the coronavirus cast over the most recent MLB season. “When we go through a crisis, very often, sports brings us together to heal. The nonpartisan nature of Biden’s remarks, as well as the amicable terms of the Dodgers’ visit, were markedly dissimilar from the vast majority of the […]
“Things are picking up. The report is likely to ease some pressure on President Joe Biden over the labor market’s slower-than-expected recovery. The leisure and hospitality industry, which has complained of a labor shortage, saw the largest gains, adding 343,000 jobs last month, according to the report. While the June jobs figure would be considered […]
The most notable pockets of resistance during Wednesday’s and Thursday’s 16-plus-hour markup came from lawmakers from California, the home base of Google, Facebook and Apple. Still, the committee pressed on into the night and early Thursday, in a debate that included side arguments about Chinese oppression, “cancel culture,” Dr. The series of votes came just […]