President Joe Biden’s executive order on climate change includes a big win for environmental justice advocates: a new scorecard to hold all agencies accountable in pushing more equitable treatment of people of color and polluted communities.

Workers who refuse a job they consider unsafe might have an easier time getting unemployment benefits under a Biden administration proposal, but big questions remain around the policy’s specifics and how states will apply it.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, which merged with French rival PSA Group earlier this month to form Stellantis NV, has agreed to pay a $30 million fine to settle a corruption probe targeting its U.S. operations.

House Democrats, steeled by the pandemic, are eager to advance permanent paid leave legislation in tandem with temporary protections the Biden administration is expected to try to push through Congress in coming weeks.

Roughly $900 million worth of medical malpractice claims are languishing at the Pentagon, more than a year after Congress eased the seven-decade ban on troops or their families seeking compensation for injury or death at the hand of military hospitals.

Guidance for a brief section of the tax code that has frustrated the state-legal cannabis industry has been pushed low on the IRS’s priority list, an agency official said.