New York CNN Business — Pizza places have always been experts when it comes to delivery, flexing with remote drop-offs and robot delivery cars. But now they’re facing a problem: not enough drivers. In early March, Domino’s then-CEO Ritch Allison warned that a driver shortage would be a drag on business. “Delivery driver staffing may…
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California is in a water crisis, yet usage is way up. Officials are focusing on the wrong things, advocates say
CNN — California is facing a crisis. Not only are its reservoirs already at critically low levels due to unrelenting drought, residents and businesses across the state are also using more water now than they have in seven years, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to encourage just the opposite. Newsom has pleaded with residents and…
‘Voices of April’: China’s internet erupts in protest against censorship of Shanghai lockdown video
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. Hong Kong CNN — The shouts of locked-down residents demanding basic necessities, the cries of babies separated from their…
Interior Department cancels offshore oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico
CNN — The Biden administration announced Wednesday it would cancel three upcoming offshore oil and gas leases – two in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska – over a lack of interest and delays. The cancellation of the previously planned Cook Inlet sale in Alaska, as well as the lease sales in the…
As California runs out of water, commission poised to vote on whether to allow another expensive desalination plant
The Angels CNN — As California battles a historic drought and a water crisis looms, the state’s coastline protection agency is poised to vote Thursday on whether it will allow a $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach that would convert ocean water into municipal water for Orange County residents. Poseidon Water, which has been…