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Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday expressed his optimism about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s next term and suggested he would “help” the Republican gut regulations. “If we’re talking about …
Billionaire Jeff Bezos Wants to ‘Help’ Trump Gut Regulations Read More
If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach …
Brazil charges Volkswagen unit with treating farm workers like slaves decades ago Read More
In May 2024, the White House announced a series of new tariffs on Chinese products, including a 100% tax on imports of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), set to take effect later this …
“Nothing like before” — China is out-competing the West on EVs Read More
If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach …
This isolated town in Maine could be a model for the clean energy future Read More
“Thank you for calling. … You’re speaking with Renzo. This call may be recorded for — uhm — this call may be re—” Renzo Bahala, a customer service agent for …
AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse Read More
A pair of pants spends much less time in our wardrobe than in the African landfill where it may end up after we leave it in a container, comforted by …
Why putting used clothes in a recycling bin does not allow you to have a clear conscience Read More
A price premium for landowners is artificially inflating land prices and blocking the government from building the social homes needed to ease the housing crisis and meet its own housebuilding …
Inflated land prices blocking government from building enough homes to hit targets and meet need Read More
On World Fisheries Day, Thursday 21 November, a coalition of ocean advocacy NGOs gathered outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in London to deliver a petition …
DEFRA gets in hot water over bottom trawling – as 200,000 people step in Read More
Most European governments have failed to meet the deadline to put the minimum wage directive into national law – and some are actively working against the aims of the directive. …
Member states failing to deliver minimum wage directive Read More
Medan, Indonesia – Halimah Nasution used to feel as if she had it all. For years, she and her husband Agus Saputra made a good living renting out supplies for weddings, …
‘We lost everything’: the Indonesians falling out of the middle class Read More