Showing posts with label big business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big business. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Red Tape Isn’t the Only Reason America Can’t Build - The Atlantic

The lesson of rural broadband is that some government failures are due not to procedural excess, but to giving up on regulatory tools that might antagonize Big Business…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/rural-broadband-biden-trump/683088/ 


 

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Biggest companies pay the least tax, leaving society more vulnerable to pandemic – new research

The coronavirus pandemic is rocking financial markets, disrupting supply chains and sharply reducing consumer spending. The crisis is hitting the likes of airlines and high street retailers particularly hard, and is decimating many small businesses. Unfortunately, this is proving devastating for millions of precarious and low-income workers across the world. ...
http://theconversation.com/biggest-companies-pay-the-least-tax-leaving-society-more-vulnerable-to-pandemic-new-research-132143

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Big Business Pushes Coal-Friendly Kentucky To Embrace Renewables

Kevin Butt's job is to find cleaner ways to power Toyota. One of the hardest places to do that is at the automaker's sprawling plant in central Kentucky, a state where nearly 90 percent of electricity still comes from coal.

Butt points out a new engine assembly line, where a conveyor belt moves in a slow circle. He says it was specially designed with a more efficient motor. There are also enormous fans overhead and LED lights, all changes that save millions....
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523763826/big-business-pushes-coal-friendly-kentucky-to-embrace-renewables?ft=nprml&f=1001


Sunday, November 20, 2016

The Huffington Post - US: Big Business Demands Donald Trump Keep U.S. In Paris Climate Pact

As Donald Trump surrounds himself with like-minded climate change deniers, big business is demanding the Republican president-elect keep the U.S. in the historic Paris climate agreement and focus on building a low-carbon economy. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/big-business-donald-trump-paris-climate-deal_us_582d0818e4b030997bbd7d11?









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