What comes up might go back down. reader comments 136 with 82 posters participating Share this story Yesterday was a bad day to be an oil company. First, a court in the Netherlands ruled that Royal Dutch Shell needs to slash its emissions more than it had planned in order to meet Paris Agreement targets. ..
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Enlarge / Amazon boxes. reader comments 66 with 38 posters participating Share this story The District of Columbia sued Amazon Tuesday, alleging that the online retail giant violated antitrust law with policies that prevent sellers from offering products at lower prices on other websites. “Amazon fixed online retail prices through contract provisions and policies” that ..
Enlarge / Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. reader comments 342 with 202 posters participating Share this story Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis yesterday signed a bill into law to stop what he called the “censorship” of conservatives on social-media websites such ..
Enlarge / A rendering of GE and Glosten’s actively managed tension leg platform for floating offshore wind projects. reader comments 106 with 58 posters participating Share this story The US took its first steps toward embracing offshore wind power earlier this month with the approval of the Vineyard Wind 1 project off the coast of ..
Enlarge / President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 167 with 84 posters participating Share this story President Biden has cut his broadband-deployment spending proposal from $100 billion to $65 billion, matching the lower amount proposed by Republicans. But ..
Enlarge / A vial with the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. Thomas Lohnes | Getty Images reader comments 55 with 37 posters participating Share this story The world could “end the pandemic” in mid-2022 by vaccinating 60 percent of the population at a cost of $50 billion, the IMF has said, as rich countries and vaccine manufacturers ..
Getty Images | R.Tsubin reader comments 90 with 57 posters participating Share this story The Biden administration wants businesses to report cryptocurrency transactions with values of at least $10,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. “Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion,” the US Treasury Department said in ..
Enlarge / Tim Cook speaks during an event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. reader comments 69 with 45 posters participating Share this story Tim Cook will on Friday be confronted with allegations that Apple is operating an illegal monopoly, in a high-stakes case brought by Epic ..
Enlarge / Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021, in Killeen, Texas. A winter storm brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. reader comments 316 with 151 posters participating, including story author Share this ..
Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Jan. 21, 2021. reader comments 76 with 52 posters participating Share this story Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and a trio of her colleagues have reintroduced a bill to protect people’s privacy when their data is collected by big tech ..
