As promised, Washington’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) updated its rules for protecting employees from wildfire smoke, incorporating changes the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made to its color-coded Air Quality Index (AQI) in May 2024. As we previously reported, when the EPA published its … Read more
Secretary of Transportation weighs in That was pretty much how things stood until Thursday evening, when the Secretary of the US Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, shared some thoughts on the social media site X. “The last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear: Crewmembers who travel into space must have … Read more
Cecília Pires (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho | FCT research scholarship holder – 2023.01072.BD) In February 2025, the European Commission presented the “Action Plan for Affordable Energy”,[1] a strategy developed within the framework of the “Competitiveness Compass for the European Union (EU)”, which aims to reorient the work … Read more
“Readiness 2030” vs. “Disney power” (European security and defence on the subject of the 72-hour survival kit) Pedro Froufe [Editor of this blog and Key Staff Member of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Digital Citizenship and Technological Sustainability” (CitDig)] “Readiness 2030” is the new name for Europe’s security and defence plan. In fact, the specific … Read more
João Pedro Sousa (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho) 1. Preliminary considerations Judicial independence is a fundamental pillar of the rule of law enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). It guarantees that judges are free from external pressures – whether … Read more