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Impossible Foods plans to lay off 20% of its workers

  Bloomberg Impossible Foods Inc., the maker of meatless burgers and sausages, is preparing to cut about 20% of its staff. The Redwood City, California-based company currently employs about 700 workers. The new round of dismissals could reduce that amount by more than 100. Impossible Foods offered voluntary separation payments and benefits to employees at the end of 2022, said ...

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Southwest names new tech chief

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. named a new executive to oversee technology investments and data platforms, just over a month after the carrier suffered from an operational meltdown that forced it to cancel more than 16,700 flights. Lauren Woods, who has been with the company since 2010, was named chief information officer and senior vice president of technology, taking over ...

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Battle intensifies over $8b Alaska oil project dubbed ‘carbon bomb’

Bloomberg It’s been called a “carbon bomb” and a caribou killer. Now, climate activists have one final, brief window of opportunity to quash ConocoPhillips’s proposed $8 billion oil development in Alaska. In an unexpected twist, some opponents are quietly encouraging President Joe Biden’s administration to actually approve the project, but in such a scaled-back way that it no long makes ...

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