New rules allow oil and gas projects to continue near neighborhoods already suffering from pollution – The Denver Post
Earlier this month, the Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC), Colorado’s oil and gas regulator, released draft rules to approve or disapprove oil and gas projects. The draft rules fall far short of the ECMC’s mandate to regulate oil and…
Amazon manager: Three-crore salary for minimal work triggers debate
A recent post on Blind, the app for anonymous workplace conversations, has brought to light shocking news about an Amazon employee. The post revealed that a senior employee at Amazon has been drawing a sizable salary for over a year…
How a carbon tax could help finance a universal basic income
The United States is of course not alone. In British Columbia, where Zhao’s research took place, 600 people died in 2021 from a record-breaking heat dome that swept the Pacific Northwest –three were homeless. Elsewhere, this population group was often…
Biotech scientist moves from the USA to Europe: Happier and less stressed
This essay is based on a conversation with Stephen Knox Jones Jr., a 37-year-old scientist living in Vilnius, Lithuania. It has been edited for length and clarity. Growing up in New Hampshire, I never imagined that it would take 16…
