Joined by families of the victims, nearly 250 survivors of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London brought a lawsuit Tuesday blaming faulty building materials made by U.S. for the blaze.
Read moreAttorneys for the carpet industry argued before the Alabama Supreme Court Tuesday that two lawsuits alleging Georgia carpet manufacturers allowed contaminants to enter the drinking supply of Alabama cities should not be heard in that state’s courts.
Read moreClaiming that they and and the environment were exposed to dangerous toxins, 15 named plaintiffs brought a federal class action against The 3M Co., DuPont and others that manufactured and sold Aqueous Film Forming Foam and related materials in and around Oscoda, Michigan.
Read moreA federal judge confirmed an arbitration award of $400 million to OI European Group, whose glass factories were expropriated by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2010, because Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, whom the court calls “the legitimate representative of Venezuela,” did not contest it.
Read moreTwo environmental advocacy groups brought a federal complaint Monday over U.S. Steel’s failure to implement pollution controls at three Pittsburgh-area plants.
Read moreThe Supreme Court punted Tuesday on a securities case it just considered a week earlier at oral arguments.
Read moreA new method of tracking global warming has given scientists the ability to see how the 19th century contributed to man-made climate change, a new research study revealed on Monday.
Read moreThe Supreme Court refused Tuesday to disturb asbestos litigation brought by military widows whose husbands died of lung cancer.
Read moreGerman carmaker Volkswagen AG says it expects to shed between 5,000 and 7,000 jobs at its core brand by 2023 as a result of increasing automation of “routine tasks.”
Read moreTaking on a Obama-era regulation meant to stop global warming, the EPA joined chemical makers Friday in urging the D.C. Circuit to throw out strict limits on greenhouse gas-emitting hydrofluorocarbons.
Read moreFrom Nestle to Unilever, foreign companies are leading the pack among the globe’s top 16 consumer-goods retailers when it comes to efforts to reduce their carbon footprint, a survey out Monday shows.
Read moreThe frantic calls started pouring in at 1:24 p.m. A gunman was shooting people inside a sprawling manufacturing warehouse in Aurora, Illinois.
Read moreHurt by an 8.8 percent plunge in the manufacturing of car and auto parts, American industrial production sank 0.6 percent in January, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.
Read moreWith U.S. oil production on the upswing, the Senate focused Tuesday on how to do the same with minerals while also improving electric-battery technology to secure America’s role in the future energy industry.
Read moreFoxconn Technology Group has shifted its stated strategy yet again on Friday for a massive Wisconsin campus, crediting a conversation with President Donald Trump for cementing plans to proceed with building a factory to make high-tech liquid display screens.
Read moreThe European Union says it is introducing new measures to prevent steel produced for the U.S. market from flooding into Europe instead because of tariffs introduced by President Donald Trump.
Read moreWhenever the subject of U.S. manufacturing comes up, President Donald Trump inevitably pivots to China. A viral YouTube video mashes up Trump spitting out the country’s name hundreds of times, blaming it for unemployed U.S. factory workers.
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(CN) – Shareholders claim in a derivative action that pipe manufacturer Forterra Inc. deceived investors with an initial public offering
Read moreThe Federal Reserve said Friday that U.S. manufacturing output increased 1.1 percent in December, the biggest jump in 10 months, fueling an uptick in overall industrial production.
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