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Xcel Energy has cut carbon emissions 35 percent since 2005 and expects to surpass 50 percent by 2022, largely by retiring aging coal plants and replacing them with renewable sources. The Minneapolis-based owner of Colorado’s largest utility appears ahead of schedule on its goal of reaching a 60 percent reduction in 2005 greenhouse gas emissions […]

Just who is buying the much ballyhooed Tesla Model 3 sedan? According the California New Car Dealers Association, 3,723 people in the state during the first quarter of the year, that’s who. The CNCDA, which released its latest data on new car registrations late Tuesday, said those Model 3 numbers were enough to put the […]

OAKLAND — BART riders yearning for 21st century technology on their trains might finally get WiFi — but don’t hold your breath just yet. The agency’s governing board is poised on Thursday to approve the first step in the process: an exclusive negotiating agreement with Mobilitie Management, LLC, to provide WiFi at BART stations and […]

(Click here, if you are unable to view this video or photo gallery on your mobile device.) Amika Mota’s training for her first gig at a firehouse was thorough. She learned to perform CPR, use the Jaws of Life to pry people out of cars, and pull the massive fire hoses from trucks to battle […]

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that employer-promulgated individual arbitration procedures that require employees to waive the right to class actions are lawful. Such mechanisms are in poor repute because of their one-sidedness—even Uber has discontinued them for sexual harassment claims though, inconsistently, not for other employee grievances. In arriving at its […]

Students aren’t the only ones waiting for this year’s precious final ring of the school bell. Hiring managers who rely on an influx of teen labor to the seasonal job market have been crossing off the days until summer break, too. “We try to keep our pools opening coinciding with the Denver Public Schools schedule, […]

By REGINA GARCIA CANO | The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas casinos could watch tens of thousands of employees walk off the job for the first time in more than three decades after union members voted Tuesday to authorize a strike at any time starting June 1, a move that could cripple […]

JUNEAU, Alaska — When Danielle Schumacher attended her first convention of marijuana activists about 15 years ago, she could count on one hand all the women in a room of older men. The lack of diversity struck the then-college student, who remembers feeling out of place but also determined to make her mark. “That feeling […]

By Devlin Barrett | Washington Post The FBI has repeatedly provided grossly inflated statistics to Congress and the public about the extent of problems posed by encrypted cellphones, claiming investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year when the true number was much smaller, probably between 1,000 and 2,000, The […]

CUPERTINO — Cupertino leaders are considering a restructuring of the city’s business license fees by imposing taxes on employers based on the number of people who work for them, municipal officials said Tuesday — a levy that could jolt Apple. Alarmed by increasingly forbidding commutes and skyrocketing home prices, Cupertino officials have turned to the […]

By Tracy Jan | Washington Post In President Donald Trump’s many vocal pronouncements about stopping illegal immigration, one solution he promoted during the campaign has been conspicuously missing: a requirement that employers check whether workers are legal. Eight states require nearly all employers to use the federal government’s online “E-Verify” tool to check whether new […]

Former Uber software engineer Ingrid Avendaño repeatedly called attention to illegal discrimination against women in the ride-hailing giant’s workplace, to no avail, according to the law firm representing her in a new lawsuit. “Each time Avendaño raised concerns regarding unlawful conduct, she was met with Uber’s entrenched disregard for the rights of its women employees […]