Cathy Bussewitz

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FILE – Bikers, center, ride a Harley Davidson motorcycle in the annual Pride Parade in San Francisco June 30, 2024. (Minh Connors/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

More major firms are dropping Human Rights Campaign’s LGBTQ+ rights report card amid anti-diversity backlash

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

FILE – The Federal Trade Commission building is seen, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Arise Virtual Solutions, a gig work company, saying it misled consumers about the money they could make on its platform. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Arise will pay $7 million to workers FTC says the gig company misled about how much money they could make on its platform

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

FILE – A hiring sign is displayed in Riverwoods, Ill., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in the U.S. The move marks the largest expansion in federal overtime eligibility seen in decades. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

How U.S. moves to drastically limit ‘noncompete’ agreements and expand overtime pay will affect workers

By Cathy Bussewitz, Mae Anderson, and others

Josh London, senior vice president at Glenwood Management Corp., peers into the port hole of a natural gas fired boiler, located in the basement of The Grand Tier luxury apartment building, that his company uses to produce liquid carbon dioxide, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in New York. New York is forcing buildings to clean up, and several are experimenting with capturing the carbon dioxide, cooling it into a liquid and mixing it into concrete where it turns into a mineral. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NYC skyscrapers are installing carbon capture systems to avoid climate change fines under new city law

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

Customers in line outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Monday, March 13, 2023. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has prompted a global reckoning at venture capital and private equity firms, which found themselves suddenly exposed all together to the tech industry’s money machine. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Federal Reserve promises a ‘careful and thorough’ review of how it supervised failed Silicon Valley Bank: ‘We need to have humility’

By Ken Sweet, Christopher Rugaber, and others

Joe Biden

Biden says financial system is safe but all seized banks’ management should get sacked and tougher rules are needed

By Ken Sweet, Christopher Rugaber, and others

Signature Bank

Government takes extraordinary steps to ward off banking crisis as 3rd-largest bank failure quickly follows SVB implosion

By Ken Sweet, Christopher Rugaber, and others

An American Airlines plane lands at Logan International Airport, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in Boston. Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide than any other year on record in 2022 as air travel rebounded from the pandemic and cities turned to coal to provide a cheap source of power. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

CO2 emissions hit an all-time record in 2022 as air travel rebounds post-COVID

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

Signage with fuel prices at a Exxon Mobil gas station in Berkeley, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. jumped above $4 a gallon for the first time since 2008 in a clear sign of the energy inflation thats hurt consumers since Russia invaded Ukraine. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Exxon Mobil’s record $55.7 billion profit last year fuels criticism that it cashed in on war and sky-high gasoline prices

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

Exxon plant

Exxon scientists knew almost exactly how bad climate change would be back in the 1970s while saying the opposite publicly, study finds

By Seth Borenstein, Cathy Bussewitz, and others

FILE – Cars blur past a gas station sign displaying the price of regular unleaded gasoline Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, in Benton, Mo. Drivers in the U.S. and Europe are getting a break from the record-high pump prices they endured over the summer. But that price tag is still difficult for many customers who have been enduring relentless inflation and were used to lower prices. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Relentless inflation means drivers are still stressed about gas even as prices fall

By Cathy Bussewitz, David McHugh, and others

Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX says there was ‘unauthorized access’ to its accounts after bankruptcy. Analysts suspect an inside job

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

A woman points at tanks she says are leaking methane.

‘Mostly it’s infuriating’: Equipment designed to cut methane emission is failing to do its job, advocates say

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

Sharon Wilson points a thermal imaging camera towards a compressor station in Arlington, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. Wilson, a field advocate for Earthworks, which promotes alternatives to fossil fuels, uses the camera to detect methane leaks at oil and gas facilities. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

The Inflation Reduction Act includes $1.6 billion for equipment to stop methane leaks. Problem is, it often doesn’t work

By Cathy Bussewitz and The Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, puts his hand on the shoulder of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as he arrives for a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 24, 2022. As the war in Ukraine grinds into a second month, President Joe Biden and Western allies are gathering to chart a path to ramp up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin while tending to the economic and security fallout that’s spreading across Europe and the world. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

The problem with Joe Biden’s promise to send Europe much more natural gas to wean it off Russian fuel

By Chris Megerian, Cathy Bussewitz, and others