“Four environmental groups are crying victory after France was found guilty of failing to meet climate change goals it committed to in a historic accord signed in and named after its own capital city,” reports CBS News: The Administrative Tribunal in Paris ruled Wednesday that France had fallen short of its promise to reduce greenhouse gases under commitments made in the…
Tag: climate justice
Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan
Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced on Tuesday a new plan to spend $2 trillion over four years to significantly escalate the use of clean energy in the transportation, electricity and building sectors, part of a suite of sweeping proposals designed to create economic opportunities and build infrastructure while also tackling climate change. DogDude shares a report: In a speech in Wilmington,…
Amazon Fires Two Tech Workers Who Criticized Warehouse Conditions
phalse phace writes: Following the termination of Chris Smalls for leading a warehouse strike over poor coronavirus safety conditions, Amazon has fired two more employees who were outspoken critics of the company’s climate policies and who had denounced worker conditions at its warehouses as unsafe during the coronavirus pandemic. From a report: User experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, both…
Is Amazon Responding to Employee Concerns About ‘Ring’ Privacy?
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society,” wrote Amazon software developer Max Eliaser (as part of last week’s Medium post from “Amazon Employees For Climate Justice.”) “The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck. Ring should be…
357 Amazon Employees Launch Mass Defiance of the Company’s Communications Policy
357 Amazon employees have now “violated the e-commerce giant’s communications policy Sunday in an unprecedented public display of support for colleagues who were warned that they could be fired for speaking out to criticize the company’s climate practices,” reports the Washington Post: Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a group of workers concerned about the company’s business with the oil and gas…
Amazon Threatens To Fire Employees Who Speak Out On Climate Change
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: A group of Amazon employees say the company has threatened to fire two workers for speaking out against the company’s environmental policies. In a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said that several employees were contacted by legal and human resources representatives, who said they were in violation…