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Oct 14 2025 // A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said.The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted and charred metal and...
Jun 20 2025 // To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport.Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household...
Aug 18 2025 // The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle...
Jul 18 2025 // California Forever, the proposed futuristic community backed by billionaire venture capitalists, is now billing itself as a manufacturing center a year after local opposition forced it to withdraw plans to incorporate a...
Nov 17 2025 // A California state judge has ruled that 6,000 Black workers at Tesla’s flagship assembly plant cannot sue over alleged racial harassment as a class, reversing an earlier ruling in a major victory for CEO Elon...
Jun 3 2025 // U.S. manufacturing contracted for a third straight month in May and suppliers took the longest time in nearly three years to deliver inputs amid tariffs, potentially signaling looming shortages of some goods.President...
Sep 10 2025 // East Jordan Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers, will pay $460,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Jul 8 2025 // FCA US, LLC, an international automobile manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat car brands, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee’s request to observe the Sabbath and take unpaid...
Feb 20 2025 // Billionaire Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb Inc. and a board member of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc., plans to donate $15 million of factory-built dwellings to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.The pre-fabricated...
Apr 29 2025 // A widely followed measure of Texas manufacturing activity weakened significantly as executives used words like “chaos” and “insanity” to describe the turmoil spurred by President Donald...
Jul 1 2025 // Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said a Tesla Model Y SUV drove itself from the company’s factory near Austin to a customer’s home in the company’s latest move to showcase its push into...
Aug 25 2025 // The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Ryan Wear, of Marysville, Washington, and his entities, Water Station Management LLC and Creative Technologies, Inc., for operating two related Ponzi-like schemes between...
Jul 29 2025 // East Jordan Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers, violated federal law when it subjected female production employees to sexual harassment before taking untimely remedial action, the U.S. Equal...
Mar 12 2025 // U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food...
Sep 17 2025 // An auto parts manufacturer with a facility in Plymouth, Michigan, violated federal law when it refused to allow an older, female worker with a disability to re-enter its apprenticeship program, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Jul 1 2025 // HYDERABAD, India –– The death toll from the explosion and fire at Sigachi Industries’ chemical factory in southern India has risen to at least 39, officials said on Tuesday, forcing the supplier of pharma...
Dec 22 2025 // A Tualatin, Oregon company intentionally kept a faulty system in place for storing raw materials, exposing employees to struck-by and crushing hazards, an inspection by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division...
Jun 27 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement with Domtar Industries, LLC and E.B. Eddy Paper, Inc. (together, Domtar) to address releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the...
May 9 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act with Nalco Production LLC and Nalco Co. LLC. The companies manufacture polymer blend chemicals at their facility...
Mar 4 2025 // A fertilizer manufacturer has been fined $394,200 for the death of a worker killed by toxic gasses at a work site.The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries fined Two Rivers Terminal LLC for safety...