December 1, 2015
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Technical
amazon, AP, business, Business News, Ethanol, ethanol in gasoline, gasoline, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, renewable fuel standards, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Washington
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The Obama administration is boosting the amount of corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels in the U.S. gasoline supply despite sustained opposition by an unusual alliance of oil companies, environmentalists and some GOP presidential candidates.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a final rule designed to increase production of ethanol to be blended with gasoline through 2016, a decision that could reverberate in Iowa’s crucial presidential caucuses.
The agency said it will require more than 18 billion gallons of renewable fuels in 2016, most of it ethanol. The amount is less than was set in a 2007 renewable fuels law, but is more than was proposed by the EPA in May. The agency said that the demand for gasoline has risen since May, increasing the amount of renewable fuels that can be blended in.
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June 19, 2015
Mohenjo
Business
amazon, Barbara Ann Berwick, business, Business News, California, California Labor Commission, deputy labor commissioner, gasoline, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, independent contractor, Independent Contractors, Jordan Crook, labor, medicine, mental-health, payroll taxes, research, Ridesharing, Science, Science News, Sharing Economy, Stephanie Barrett, SUVs, tech company, TechCrunch, technology, Technology News, travel, Uber, Uber driver, vacation, Work, workers' compensation
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An official at the California Labor Commission has taken an axe to Uber’s claim that its drivers are really independent operators and not employees of the tech company.
In an opinion filed in state court Tuesday — and posted here by TechCrunch’s Jordan Crook — Stephanie Barrett, a deputy labor commissioner, challenged the business model that now undergirds much of the transportation industry as well as the so-called sharing economy. In the case, an Uber driver named Barbara Ann Berwick argued the company owed her money for costs she incurred while driving customers around in the car she owned.
In a normal employment relationship, those costs are borne by the boss, not the worker. But Uber considers Berwick an independent contractor, an increasingly common arrangement that shifts certain business expenses onto those doing the work. By using independent contractors, Uber not only doesn’t have to buy SUVs and gasoline, it doesn’t have to worry about payroll taxes or workers’ compensation costs.
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