2019-06-16 _F2A5682aaa
“In a Harebrained Response to Labor Shortages, Some Lawmakers Want More Child Labor
Bills in Iowa and Minnesota would allow teens as young as 14 to work in dangerous occupations such as meatpacking and construction.”
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“Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America’s Oil-Rich Frontier
In Alaska, people are flocking to buy electric appliances instead of fuel-guzzling furnaces, as oil prices soar and temperatures plummet.”
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This will probably not result in good for 99% of Americans.:
“What is Section 230?
A law regulating web communications comes before the Supreme Court”
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“Even as they were hyping Donald Trump's Big Lie on-air, Fox News hosts knew full well that Joe Biden, not Trump, had won the 2020 presidential election. It's what everyone already suspected, of course, but now it's an irrefutable fact thanks to legal documents filed by Dominion Voting Systems.”
“Fox News texts reveal the truth: The Big Lie was a con — that the viewers were in on
Texts prove Fox hosts knowingly lied about the 2020 election — here's why they won't lose viewers”
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“With little oversight of how trains carry hazardous chemicals, here's why the Ohio derailment disaster won't be the last.”
“The train derailment in Ohio was a disaster waiting to happen
Trains carry hazardous chemicals everyday. They're also dangerously unregulated.”
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“A seething tangle of floating trouble is massing for a potential summer assault on Florida beaches as a vast forest of sargassum grows in record amounts in the Atlantic Ocean. University of South Florida scientists said January was the second consecutive month that the amount of seaweed doubled, reaching 8.7 million tons, or enough to fill about 3,000 Olympic size pools.”
“Huge seaweed blob on way to Florida is 'like a Stephen King movie'
University of South Florida scientists said January was the second consecutive month that the amount of seaweed doubled, reaching 8.7 million tons, or enough to fill about 3,000 Olympic size pools.”
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“Ocean plastic waste is a large and growing problem, but where does it come from? This graphic visualizes the top countries emitting ocean plastic.”
“Which Countries Pollute the Most Ocean Plastic Waste?”
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“The net result of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization is the crumbling of the middle class.”
“The Core of the Economy--The Middle Class--Is Crumbling”
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