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Your Monday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

National

1.) In a reversal of a Trump-era policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it will roll back lax wastewater pollution rules for coal-fired power plants issued by the former administration, though the change won't be felt any time soon.

2.) The former campaign adviser to Donald Trump accused of acting as an unregistered foreign agent pleaded not guilty to all charges in Brooklyn federal court on Monday. 

Regional

3.) To stymie the explosion of the delta variant in the nation’s most populous state, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday announced state and health care workers must verify their vaccination status or undergo routine Covid-19 testing to keep their jobs.

4.) "It's time to pay the piper," a New York federal judge wrote Monday in convicting disbarred environmental and human rights attorney Steven Donziger on six counts of contempt.

International

5.) Twenty months into the coronavirus pandemic, a weary world is seeing protests – many violent – break out around the globe with people in vaccine-rich Western countries angry over the introduction of strict vaccination regimes and people in poorer nations fed up with broken economies and their governments' inability to bring the pandemic under control.

6.) The Ninth Circuit denied a bid by a consortium of Chinese companies to evade responsibility for the theft of trade secrets by invoking diplomatic immunity. 

Science

7.) New research says extreme weather events like the recent surge of summer heat waves across the U.S. are being spurred by the planet's ongoing battle with climate change.

8.) Two University of Washington scientists have created a new statistical method to help calculate the true number of Covid-19 cases in the U.S. and in each individual state.

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