Amazon came to him, Marsden said, because he had previously helped to pass another Amazon-drafted bill, which allowed small automated vehicles to ferry packages from delivery trucks to homes. Marsden told Reuters he was given the text of the privacy bill by Amazon contract lobbyist Meade Spotts, of the Richmond, Virginia, firm Spotts Fain.

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Another tactic Amazon uses to sway lawmakers, three former Amazon public-policy staffers said in interviews, is to highlight the company_s job creation. The company often used its gargantuan warehouses to host its meetings with politicians, the internal documents show.

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Trade was volatile, with crude prices jumping early to multi-year highs on worries about disruption to Russia's exports, which at 4 to 5 million barrels per day (bpd) are more than any other nation other than Saudi Arabia.





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"People in the world don't want to deal with a country that is committing these atrocities in Ukraine." Oil markets are in an "explosive mood" over increasing outrage against Russia, said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group.

"We are defending our home with pen and paper and our voices, and not with spears," said 29-year-old Nihua, who leads 30 communities of about 1,000 Pastaza Waorani people living in villages spread along the river.

Fifteen years ago, in a bid to save Yasuni national park from oil development, Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa asked wealthy countries to donate $3.6 billion to offset revenue lost by not drilling there.



HOUSTON, March 3 (Reuters) - Oil slid 2% on Thursday, after hitting prices not seen in a decade, as sellers jumped on hopes the United States and Iran will agree soon on a nuclear deal that could add barrels to a tight global market.

Lasso, an ex-banker who took office in May 2021, issued two decrees in his first days in office meant to facilitate the development of oil blocks and attract billions of dollars in foreign investment for mining and oil projects.

Yet across most of the Amazon basin, which spans nine countries in South America, deforestation is surging as trees fall to agricultural expansion, oil exploration, illegal gold mining and production of coca, used to make cocaine.

Phillips, 57, a freelance reporter, was doing research for a book on the trip with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, a former head of isolated and recently contacted tribes at federal indigenous affairs agency Funai.

Carney and his deputies set the tone for a more aggressive lobbying operation early in his tenure, drafting a strategy memo for a new global corporate-affairs department that combined public-policy and public-relations teams.

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"We are close to a possible deal," Jalina Porter, the U.S. State Department's principal deputy spokesperson, told reporters.

On Thursday a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, showed the stock of enriched uranium amassed by Iran was in breach of its 2015 nuclear deal, with the country nearing the ability to make a nuclear bomb.

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The settlement - reached by a narrow dirt road sliced through the forest in the 1970s during Ecuador's oil boom and then a three-hour motorized canoe ride along the Curaray River - is home to some of the region's 5,000 Waorani.

At an April hearing of the California State Assembly_s privacy committee, a disability rights advocate testified that Cunningham_s bill was "a form of discrimination" against people with disabilities.

It also ruled the mining concessions violated indigenous communities' right to a healthy environment, based on Ecuador's "rights of nature" laws that protect rivers and ecosystems and that were enshrined in its constitution in 2008.