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(Reuters) – California regulators will vote on Friday on whether to toughen a policy aimed at boosting low-carbon fuels to slash greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector and meet the state’s ambitious climate change goals. The proposed changes to California’s influential Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which has been…
Googlers have been using an internal message board to vent about the election.There’s just one problem: they aren’t allowed to make political posts, so they’re being creative.Google has cracked down on political discussions, and CEO Sundar Pichai urged staff to stay neutral. Google employees are, as ever, memeing through it.As…
The Harris-Walz campaign launched a Fortnite map to engage young male voters.The map, Freedom Town, USA, focuses on affordable housing and Harris’ proposed policies.I spent a day in Freedom Town, USA, building housing, and it was pretty empty. Welcome to Freedom Town, USA, a Fortnite world created by the Harris-Walz…
(Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris have a couple of things in common on the issue of U.S. energy policy: both say they want to expand production and keep prices down for consumers. The core difference is that Harris says she wants to do so in a…
Investing.com — Foreign policy changes in case of a second Donald Trump administration could substantially impact energy markets, particularly regarding Russia and Iran, according to RBC Capital Markets. Citing its recent meetings in Washington with senior officials from the previous Trump administration, RBC commodity strategists said a Trump-led administration in…
The CEO of European ride-hailing app Bolt is mandating workers return to the office 12 days a month.In a memo, Markus Villig called it a “disgrace” that fewer than half of staff went in more than 2 days a week.He said the policy will help Bolt “retain an intense culture”…
Sometimes it’s not enough to read between the lines. More and more, you have to spell it out.In the case of Target, the days of testing the legal and ethical limits of the company’s return policy may be numbered.In a recent update to its website, Target now says it “reserves…
The Biden administration’s ambitious environmental agenda has significantly boosted electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the U.S., with EV penetration rising from 2.5% in 2020 to 10% in 2024 year-to-date, as per Bernstein. However, as per the equity research and trading firm, recent months have seen a slowdown in EV growth,…
Vice President Kamala Harris finally added a policy section to her campaign website on Sunday, robbing former President Donald Trump of a potential attack line during Tuesday night’s debate. Though the page, entitled “A New Way Forward,” is sparse on many specifics, it does reference venture capital multiple times, indicating…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called work-from-home “morally wrong.” Musk says he works seven days a week and just takes two to three days off a year. He imposed a strict in-office policy at Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, but there have been exceptions. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called working…
