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In July 2020, Trump moved to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act by limiting public review to speed up permitting. [334] In August 2020, Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund. He had intended to oppose the bill and gut the fund until Republican senators afraid of losing their ...
A 2020 experimental study in the American Economic Review found that deactivating Facebook led to increased subjective well-being. [454] In a blog post in December 2017, the company highlighted research that has shown "passively consuming" the News Feed , as in reading but not interacting, left users with negative feelings, whereas interacting ...
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to ...
After a review period that will last into 2017, the FAA expects the rules to go into force and that more than 7,000 businesses will receive UAV permits in the United States between 2017 and 2020. [80]
The B-17 Flying Fortress was the subject of the 1990 Warner Bros. film Memphis Belle. [101] During filming, one of the five vintage B-17s was destroyed in an accidental crash and a second was damaged when an engine cowling detached in flight, tearing a chunk out of the aircraft's tail. There were no injuries in either incident. [102]
United States, Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, went into effect on January 1, 1968. [ 267 ] United States, California: The Southern Pacific Railroad rejected Leah Rosenfeld 's claims for promotion, citing the California state law that barred women from performing the ...
American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.Centered on , it is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 310 miles (500 km) south of To