The Trump administration has advanced easier dishwasher regulations that exempt fast-cleaning machines from decades-old rules, a rollback lauded by the president at a recent Nevada campaign rally. The Department of Energy final rule creates a separate “product class” for dishwashers with a short cycle, classifying that setting as the “normal” cycle and setting no limit on energy or water use. Critics of the change said the regulatory shift will do nothing to improve today’s machines, which...

Candidates’ travel and Trump’s White House events during pandemic highlight challenge of contact tracing, but experts still emphasize its usefulness Contact tracing is an alert system intended to help slow the spread of COVID-19. It is used to let as many people as possible know about their possible contact with those who may have been exposed to the coronavirus and nudge them into quarantine even absent symptoms. Despite its complexity and limitations, it’s one of the handful of effective...

UBS Group, which manages $2.6 trillion in assets for some of the world’s wealthiest people, will now advise private clients to opt for sustainable investments over more traditional options when appropriate, the first major financial institution to do so. While traditional investments will remain most suitable in some circumstances, UBS UBS, -0.89% believes a 100% sustainable portfolio can deliver similar or potentially higher returns compared to traditional investment portfolios and offer...

Dispatches from a Pandemic Windy City Mushrooms found itself selling more product directly to homes not restaurants, growth that encouraged this farm-meets-factory to expand The head-swiveling halt for restaurant dining in foodie-favorite Chicago because of COVID-19 has been painful for many wholesale companies, even as eating out slowly picks back up. It’s a blip on a growth plan that only inspired Guy Forman. Forman is the founder at the once almost exclusively-wholesale Windy City...

Freakish Siberian heat and a record string of high-temperature days during the already typically soupy Washington, D.C., summer are two of a handful of weather phenomena adding to the public-health stress of COVID-19. Midweek, the most punishing temperatures began to retreat across the southern U.S., the U.S. Weather Service said, but heat will be on the increase for the eastern U.S. and for the northern High Plains. The warmer lows overnight will not provide much relief, adding to the stress...