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Andrew J. Hawkins

Andrew J. Hawkins

Transportation editor

Transportation editor

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    Rivian CEO: ‘This is the moment’ to fight climate change.

    Rivian released a short film today in which the company’s CEO RJ Scaringe issues a call to action on climate change, arguing the time is now to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy solutions.

    The scale of the challenge means we need to be making these changes now, and we need to begin working toward every increasing renewable content on our grid. We need to replace the roughly one-and-a-half billion combustion powered vehicles on our planet with electric vehicles, but also know that on the path to the end state, we’re going to have solutions that are imperfect, but we need to start.

    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Andrew J. Hawkins
    The fact that Uber and Lyft didn’t oppose this Mass. ballot measure to allow drivers to unionize tells you everything.

    Progressives say the state measure, which won 54-46, is a distraction from the prevailing goal of reclassifying drivers as employees. Even the drivers say they aren’t opposed to the measure, but would prefer a more comprehensive fix. The ballot measure is the first of its kind in the US.