Why engine-maker Cummins is lobbying President Biden for new climate legislation

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The COVID recession may kill more Americans than COVID-19 does

The economic effects of COVID-19 could prove deadlier than the disease itself.  So says just-released research, which concludes that the total lives lost to the virus in the U.S.  may “far exceed those immediately related to the acute COVID-19 critical illness…. [T]he recession caused by the pandemic can jeopardize population health for the next two decades.” The […]

Amazon offers Biden help to speed up vaccine distribution

Enlarge / An Amazon warehouse on a sunny day in Germany on April 2, 2020. (credit: Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images) Amazon is one of the country’s largest businesses—and despite its faults and flaws, the company overall excels at logistics and distribution at scale. Therefore, Amazon suggests, the brand-new Biden administration should […]