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Fisker Considers Expanding Production of Electric SUV
The planned start of production for the Fisker Ocean remains on track.
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Northrop Grumman's G/ATOR multifunction sensor successfully detected and tracked multiple cruise missile threats simultaneously during a recent live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
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Northrop G/ATOR Demos Advanced Fire Control Radar
The tests were part of the U.S. Marine Corps' mid-tier acquisition rapid prototyping effort.
August 19, 2022
20 tons of Ohara E6 borosilicate glass being loaded onto the mold of one of the GMT’s mirrors.
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How to Build a Mirror for One of the World's Biggest Telescopes?
The question is how to build something substantially bigger than the current generation.
August 19, 2022
A BNSF Railway train in Seattle, July 27, 2015.
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Rail Union Says Plan for Contract Deal Doesn't Address Concerns
It doesn't do enough to address concerns about working conditions.
August 19, 2022
Cargo vessels are anchored offshore near oil platforms, before heading into the Los Angeles-Long Beach port on Oct. 5, 2021. The first official federal calculations of the new spending package that President Biden signed show it will slice America's carbon pollution by more than 1 billion tons by the end of the decade. The new law’s provisions that call for oil and gas leasing on federal land and water “may lead to some increase” in carbon pollution, the federal analysis said.
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Study: New Climate Law to Slice Carbon Pollution 40%
It will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion tons.
August 19, 2022
The sun sets at Chalmette refinery in Chalmette, La., located just over the Mississippi River levee May 3, 2020. While the Inflation Reduction Act concentrates on clean energy incentives that could drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, it also buoys oil and gas interests by mandating leasing of vast areas of public lands and off the nation’s coasts.
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U.S. Oil & Gas Unlikely Beneficiary in Climate Bill
The bill bypasses concerns about emissions and guarantees new drilling opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
August 19, 2022
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A man walks along the lower than normal bank of the Jialing River in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after the driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers shrunk to barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.
China's Drought Disrupts Industry
August 19, 2022
A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm outside Jerome, Idaho. The University of Idaho wants to build the nation's largest research dairy and experimental farm in south-central Idaho. In a presentation to Gov. Brad Little and other members of the Idaho Land Board on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, University President Scott Green and school officials said the proposed Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, or CAFE, will help support growth of the dairy and other industries.
University Envisions Largest Research Dairy in U.S.
August 19, 2022
A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 10, 2020. On Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, the FDA issued a first-of-a-kind warning to the maker of nicotine gummies, saying the illegal candies pose a growing risk to teenagers and younger children.
FDA Targets Illegal Nicotine Gummies in New Warning Letter
August 19, 2022
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Cargo Ship Breakdown Blocks River Traffic
August 18, 2022
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Addressing Vulnerabilities at Each Stage of a Cyberattack
Ignoring these soft spots can put your entire network, and all its data, at risk.
August 18, 2022
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Gerresheimer Invests Some $94M in U.S. Expansion
The company plans to ramp up manufacturing, supply and logistics.
August 18, 2022
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Electric Truck Maker Hyzon Motors Shakes Up Leadership
The company named an interim chief to replace its outgoing CEO.
August 18, 2022
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CEO Who Cut Pay to Give Workers More Has Resigned
The embattled CEO of Gravity Payments famously lowered his salary to $70,000 in 2015.
August 18, 2022
Union Pacific has already lost three lawsuits over the way it dismisses employees with health conditions because of safety concerns, and the prospect of hundreds more similar lawsuits, including Hersey's case, looms over the railroad.
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Disqualified for Disabilities, Railroad Workers Fight Back
The federal lawsuits could prove costly to Union Pacific.
August 18, 2022
Servo motors from STOBER Drives.
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STOBER Drives Announces $5M U.S. Expansion
The expansion will include new equipment and the conversion of office space into an employee training facility.
August 17, 2022
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Oil Company Climate Change Scenarios Don't Meet Paris Agreement Goals
These scenarios are hugely influential. They are used by companies making investment decisions and, importantly, by policymakers as a basis for their decisions.
August 17, 2022
In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity is a bleached sandhill skipper in the meadows at Baltazor Hot Spring in Humboldt County, Nevada, taken on Sept 13, 2021. Conservationists who are already suing to block a geothermal power plant where an endangered toad lives in western Nevada are now seeking U.S. protection for the rare butterfly at another geothermal project the developer plans near the Oregon line.
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Protection Sought for Rare Butterflies at Geothermal Plant Site
First it was an endangered toad, now it's a butterfly.
August 17, 2022
A delivery van departs an Amazon warehouse in Dedham, Mass., Oct. 1, 2020.
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Amazon Accuses Feds of Hounding Bezos, Senior Execs
The e-commerce giant says investigators are making "impossible-to-satisfy demands."
August 17, 2022
A BNSF rail terminal worker monitors the departure of a freight train, June 15, 2021, Galesburg, Ill.
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Railroad Dispute Plan Calls for 24% Raises
Railroads and unions will use the recommendations as the basis for a new round of negotiations.
August 17, 2022
A dried riverbed is exposed after the water level dropped in the Yangtze River in Yunyang county in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies.
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China Cuts Power to Factories, Homes as Reservoirs Fall
Makers of solar panels, cement and urea closed or reduced production after they were ordered to ration power.
August 17, 2022
Scientists say the species is teetering on the edge of decline and worry that proliferating wind turbines could push them over the brink.
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Wind Energy Boom and Golden Eagles Collide in the U.S. West
The threats of climate change and wind turbine collisions leave golden eagles doubly vulnerable.
August 17, 2022
A spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board said the petition was filed for a warehouse in the town of Schodack, near Albany.
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Amazon Workers in Upstate New York File for Union Election
The warehouse has roughly 1,000 workers.
August 17, 2022
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, smiles as he plays bridge following the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., on May 5, 2019. Warren Buffett's company bet more on high-tech darlings Apple and Amazon during the second quarter of 2022 while also investing billions in old school oil producers Occidental Petroleum and Chevron.
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Buffett's Firm Buys More Apple, Amazon While Betting on Oil
Wall Street follows Berkshire’s investments closely because of Buffett’s remarkably successful track record over the decades.
August 17, 2022
SpaceX custom EDM robotic work cell, entirely designed, engineered, built and commissioned by Beaumont Machine.
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Beaumont Machine Reacquired by Founders
The builder of Electrical Discharge Machines also has a new location.
August 17, 2022