Environment
The United States sued J.R. Simplot Co. and Simplot Phosphates for years of environmental violations at its fertilizer plant near Rock Springs, Wyoming.
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Biden Plays to Working Class in Rollout of Economic Plan
Former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made his case to the working class Thursday, delivering a speech from the battleground state of Pennsylvania touting himself as the candidate best positioned to restore America to its past manufacturing glory.
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Biden Proposes $700 Billion ‘Buy American’ Campaign
Launching an economic pitch expected to anchor his fall presidential campaign, Democratic candidate Joe Biden is proposing sweeping new uses of the federal government’s regulatory and spending power to bolster U.S. manufacturing and technology firms.
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Biden Touts Plan to Bring Manufacturing Back to US
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden previewed a plan Tuesday to manufacture a range of products critical to national security in the United States after the pandemic revealed America’s crippling reliance on other countries — particularly China — for goods.
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New Record for Nasdaq in Post-Holiday Market Surge
The booming sound on Wall Street was not just the echoes of fireworks from the Fourth of July, but a building rally that boosted some markets to all-time highs.
Read moreJapanese Firms Say Electrified Clothes Kill Bacteria
Here’s a shocking idea: a fabric that can produce small amounts of electricity powered by movement, allowing your clothing to zap microbes and bacteria as you go about your day.
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Saw Manufacturer Seeks New Trial in Case of Amputated Butcher
A kitchen equipment manufacturer ordered to pay a multimillion-dollar verdict to a grocery store butcher whose arm was amputated by a meat saw asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday for a new trial on the butcher’s negligence lawsuit.
Read morePFOA Contamination
The Second Circuit upheld the denial of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell’s attempt to dismiss personal injury and property damage claims relating to a manufacturing facility that used perfluorooctanoic acid and contaminated the water supply in the Village of Hoosick Falls, New York.
Read moreMarkets Barely Buoyant on Tide of Unprecedented Free Fall
From retail sales to industrial production, a number of “worst-ever” reports dragged markets down Friday morning, but investors fought back to close out the day barely ahead.
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Auto Workers Returning to Factories in Detroit
Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe in a century, one major industry is making a comeback: Tens of thousands of auto workers are returning to factories that have been shut since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Homicide Charges Against Indian Factory After Fatal Gas Leak
Indian police on Friday filed charges of culpable homicide, including negligence in handling toxic substances, against a South Korean-owned chemical factory where a gas leak killed 12 people and sickened more than a thousand.
Read moreVirus Price-Gouging
3M Co. sued Tac2 Global in federal court, claiming it falsely claimed affiliation with 3M to try to sell millions of N95 protective masks, jacking by the price by 430%, damaging 3M’s reputation.
Read moreFighter Jets
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Lockheed Martin is entitled to a tax refund from the state in a dispute relating to F-16 fighter jets built in Fort Worth for the U.S. government and then sold to foreign governments. Receipts from the sales of the aircraft were not “properly sourced” to Texas, and the company is entitled to a refund of franchise taxes.
Read moreHalf a Billion Dollars for Medical Gowns: Yarn Maker That Hosted Pence Lands Giant Coronavirus Contract
The contract dwarfs those given to makers of other PPE as well as the companies working on vaccines and ventilators.
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Market Flatlines With Manufacturing Pulse Check
This week on Wall Street began and ended with bad news, but investors took it in stride.
Read moreBoeing Sued
ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Co. sued Boeing for $336 million in advance payments on 40 of its 737 Max planes, production and delivery of which have been suspended.
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DC Circuit Calls for More Pollution Control at Pulp Mills
Although certain toxins discharged from furnaces and kilns at pulp mills were not deemed dangerous in a list of substances the government monitors, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that they should have been considered harmful.
Read moreSupply Chain for Antibody Testing Needs Federal Assist, Cuomo Says
Announcing that thousands of New Yorkers are being tested for signs of immunity to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo rose Monday to a challenge from Washington about taking responsibility in the crisis.
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Virus Killing Workers in Mexican Border Plants
When Ana Lilia Gonzalez fell ill with flu-like symptoms, she went to the infirmary at her factory in Ciudad Juárez, where the doctor told her she could carry on working. Two weeks later, she was dead.
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