Vermont Moves to Hold Fossil-Fuel Companies Liable for Climate-Change Damage (archive.ph)
Recently, with memories of the floodings still fresh, Vermont lawmakers voted to assess a fee on fossil-fuel producers to pay for “climate-adaptive” infrastructure projects in the state. The bill operates on the polluter-pays principle, the basis of the federal Superfund law—it’s been dubbed the Climate Superfund Act....
'It Helped Me Embody Someone Else': How 'Cyberpunk 2077' Helped Gene Park Battle Cancer (www.rollingstone.com)
This summer is the end of outdoor dining in NYC as we know it (gothamist.com)
how's your week going, Beehaw
busy as usual, alas
Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain - Episode Five: Arion Press (2015) (youtu.be)
Anthony Bourdain & The Balvenie head to San Francisco, California to meet with Andrew Hoyem, master typographer and printer of Arion Press. One of the last of its kind, Arion Press has only a handful of members on its staff, all fellow craftsmen dedicated to this age old process. Each works meticulously to create the books in...
‘Furiosa’ Up In Smoke With $31M-$33M, Lowest Memorial Day Opening In Decades, Might Get Clawed By ‘Garfield’: How Worried Should Hollywood Be About Theatrical? (deadline.com)
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
Massachusetts' millionaires tax revenue reaches $1.8 billion, on pace to double estimates (www.wgbh.org)
Academic workers call “standup strike” across UC system (www.californiadsa.org)
We Need to Fight for a Democratic Republic Again (www.dsausa.org)
3 Housing Lessons from Vienna and Berlin (www.powerswitchaction.org)
A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm (coloradosun.com)
IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more (www.gamesindustry.biz)
this is already leading to layoffs, including “GamesIndustry.biz managing editor Brendan Sinclair” and “Alice Bell, deputy editor at Rock Paper Shotgun”
Wolverines could be the next animal to come to Colorado as Polis signs reintroduction bill (www.cpr.org)
Priced Out of Housing, Communities Take Development Into Their Own Hands (archive.ph)
“Traverse City is becoming Myrtle Beach meets Hilton Head — a place catering to a population outside the region,” Mr. Treter said. “Our work force can’t live here anymore.”...
This Utah County Will Buy Your Lawn to Save Water (reasonstobecheerful.world)
UCLA’s Unholy Alliance: House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence (www.bostonreview.net)
how's your week going, Beehaw
currently working on book 28 of 40 for the year