- Associated Press
Louisiana Republicans reject Jewish advocates' pleas to bar nitrogen gas as an execution method
An effort by Louisiana's Jewish community to bar nitrogen gas as an execution method was blocked by a conservative legislative committee on Tuesday. Alabama was the first state in the nation to use the gas earlier this year. Members of the Jewish community in Louisiana have another reason for rejecting it: They say it invokes trauma from the Holocaust, when the Nazis used lethal gas to kill millions of European Jews.
- The Fiscal Times
Biden to Release 1 Million Gallons of Gas as Summer Driving Season Begins
The Biden administration announced plans Tuesday to release roughly 1 million barrels of gasoline from the nation’s reserve during the peak summer driving season between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. The U.S. Department of Energy said the majority of the gasoline (900,000 barrels) would come from a storage site in Port Reading, New Jersey, with a smaller amount (98,824 barrels) coming from a facility in South Portland, Maine. The release will effectively close the Northeast Gasoline Suppl
- The Fiscal Times
100+ Unions and Public Interest Groups Call for Major Tax Overhaul
A coalition of more than 100 unions, advocacy groups and think tanks wrote to congressional leaders Tuesday urging them to use the upcoming expiration of some 2017 Trump tax cuts to make the tax code more fair and fiscally responsible. The Congressional Budget Office recently said that extending all the expiring tax cuts would cost $4.6 trillion over 10 years. The groups behind the letter are urging lawmakers to think about broader reforms. “We urge you to use the expiration of these provisions
