"the Court agrees that [the Corps] did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline's effects are likely to be highly controversial." The Court did not determine whether pipeline operations should be shut off and has requested additional briefing on the subject and a status conference next week.
"This is a major victory for the Tribe and we commend the courts for upholding the law and doing the right thing," said Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II in a recent statement. "The previous administration painstakingly considered the impacts of this pipeline, and President Trump hastily dismissed these careful environmental considerations in favor of political and personal interests. We applaud the courts for protecting our laws and regulations from undue political influence and will ask the Court to shut down pipeline operations immediately."
"As a demonstration of the administration's commitment to supporting American businesses, DHS is providing this one-time increase to the congressionally set annual cap," Kelly said.This year's limit for H-2B visas is 66,000. In May, Congress gave the Trump administration the authority to increase the number upon determination that the needs of American businesses cannot be satisfied in fiscal year 2017 with United States workers who are willing, qualified, and able to perform temporary nonagricultural labor, the bill said.
The decision threatens to reverse the trend of employers "raising pay to successfully recruit more unemployed Americans for lower-skilled jobs," said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration levels. This is yet another example of the administration and Congress failing to keep the Trump campaign promise of putting American workers first," he said.
The number of homeless families in the UK has almost doubled since the Conservative Party took power seven years ago, figures show.
Up to 59,090 households, or one in every 393 in the country, were declared homeless or in "priority need" of housing between March and April 2017, a 48 percent rise on the 40,020 in the same period in 2010.
According to a report by the Department of Communities and Local Government, up to 4,060 of the 14,600 households reported to local councils in the first quarter of 2017 were in London, accounting for 28 percent of the total.
The rise is thought to be down to both the economic and housing crises affecting Britain in recent years.
Comment: Tuwayha's story sounds like a bad cover story. More on the background for this case here: