The National Transportation Safety Board will recommend a nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices. NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman plans to hold a press conference Tuesday at 2 p.m. to discuss the recommendations. While the agency investigates transportation and pipeline accidents and makes recommendations on safety rules and regulations, it has no power to implement them. Read full article > >

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NTSB seeks nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that his agency would quickly adopt most of the recommendations contained in a two year study that looked at USDA’s history of discrimination and its ongoing civil rights failings. The recommendations range from making the department’s rural development programs more accessible to women to appointing a “chief diversity officer” in each of the agency’s state offices. The $8 million assessment by an outside group was spurred by a promise from the Obama administration to bring “ cultural transformation ” to a department that has been guilty of some of the government’s most egregious cases of discrimination. Read full article > >

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USDA Secretary Vilsack says agency will adopt recommendations on diversity