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This Amazon Employee Got Paid In Stock. Now She's Using It To Push The Company On Climate

People stand in the lobby for Amazon offices Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in New York. Twenty-eight employees at Amazon have filed an activist shareholder proposal asking the company to take a stronger stance on climate change. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
People stand in the lobby for Amazon offices Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in New York. Twenty-eight employees at Amazon have filed an activist shareholder proposal asking the company to take a stronger stance on climate change. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

Twenty-eight employees at Amazon have filed an activist shareholder proposal asking Amazon to take a stronger stance on climate change. Over the weekend, the number of employees supporting their initiative grew to more than 6,000.

Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins talks with Maren Costa, a principal designer at Amazon and one of the employees pushing for Amazon to adopt a more aggressive strategy against climate change.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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