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In Colorado, gas could soon come with a warning label

Fast Company Tech

The Centennial State may become first in the nation to require retailers to warn consumers that burning fossil fuels releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases, known by the state of Colorado to be linked to significant health impacts and global heating. The Cambridge City Council enacted its greenhouse gas label law in 2020.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. She has the roadmap for the nation’s clean energy future. Rutzen was legal advisor in the Czechoslovak Parliament where he helped draft the country’s nonprofit laws.

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4 of the best robocall-blocking apps and tools for avoiding phone spam

Mashable Tech

billion robocalls were placed to U.S. That's down from a pre-pandemic peak of 58 billion robocalls placed in 2019 thanks to FCC enforcement actions in recent years. Weeding out illegal calls in real-time without blocking lawful calls is the "most complex part" of the agency's robocall smackdown, it says.

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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law

The Verge

Google, Facebook, and Twitter are pausing the processing of data requests from the Hong Kong government as they review a new security law that went into effect on July 1st. Google put its pause into place as soon as the law took effect last Wednesday. “[W]hen

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Inside the booming edibles economy

Fast Company Tech

It’s much cheaper for these brands to build in one place and ship nationally than to build in every individual market like they would have to do in the adult-use space. In 2023, Washington State created a new law that said any product containing THC is considered cannabis and must be sold in licensed dispensaries.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Industry groups sue to stop Florida’s new social media law

The Verge

They’re asking a court to prevent the law from taking effect, calling it a “frontal assault on the First Amendment.”. The law is crony capitalism masquerading as consumer protection,” said NetChoice vice president and general counsel Carl Szabo in a statement.

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