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A tentative labor agreement distributed Friday to workers at Harley-Davidson's plant in south-central Pennsylvania makes it appear likely that the motorcycle maker will keep its operations there, instead of leaving the state to cut costs. Complete Story...
The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.
Imperial Sugar Co. said Friday it has entered a three-way joint venture to build a cane sugar refinery next to its existing factory in Gramercy, La.
A Kent Fire Department spokesman says Kent police and Boeing officials are investigating the death of a man at the Boeing plant in the south Seattle suburb. Capt. Kyle Ohashi said the unidentified man died Wednesday in what Ohashi said "appears to be an industrial accident."
Columbus McKinnon Corp., maker of hoists, cranes and other lifts, said Monday it would sell its American Lifts unit to Autoquip for $2.4 million in cash and close the plant that now houses those operations.
Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday announced plans for a Chinese-owned solar panel maker to build its U.S. headquarters and a manufacturing plant in the Phoenix area, propelling one of the nation's sunniest states toward a bigger global presence in the renewable energy industry.
Biotechnology manufacturer Talecris Biotherapeutics said Friday it will spend $268.7 million and get state and local incentives to expand a plant in Clayton, N.C.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says Western Biomass Energy, which converts wood chips from the Black Hills into renewable fuels, has been selected to take part in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.
Mississippi Power Co. has received the first level of regulatory approval in its effort to build a new coal-powered generating plant in the east-central part of the state.
The owner of a plant that has made school buses in Conway for decades said that it would end bus-production operations there soon, affecting up to 477 jobs at the facility.
Window and door manufacturer Harvey Building Products has announced plans to close its Springfield facility and move about 100 jobs to other locations in New England.
Multiple explosions rocked a Michigan welding supply plant after an acetylene tank burst into flames on Monday, sending an employee to the hospital and prompting many homes and businesses to evacuate, authorities said.
Weyerhaeuser Co., a major U.S. timber and lumber supplier, said Friday it will build a pulp processing plant in Poland to supply Procter & Gamble's operations in eastern and western Europe.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday imposed a record $87 million fine against oil giant BP PLC for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers at its Texas City refinery.
General Motors Co. will temporarily shutdown a plant that builds two of its crossover vehicles and reduce production at a transmission plant as a result of a parts shortage stemming from a strike at a supplier in India, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Opponents of a coal drying plant in southwestern North Dakota say they are suing to overturn a zoning change for the plant.
American Municipal Power has been awarded a $20 million bond from the federal government for a hydroelectric project at the Willow Island Locks and Dam.
Boeing Co. will open a second assembly line for its long-delayed 787 jetliner in South Carolina, expanding beyond its longtime manufacturing base in Washington state to take advantage of economic incentives and a nonunion work force.
Computer giant Dell Inc. has returned more than $1.5 million to the state after the company announced that it was closing a large computer assembly plant in central North Carolina.
Appliance maker Electrolux announced Friday that it would close two Iowa plants by spring 2011, putting 850 people out of work as operations are moved to Mexico.
Greg Bove steps into his pickup truck and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida's renewable energy plans begin: Acres of open land filled with solar panels that will soon power thousands of homes and business.
The Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday it will review a case involving Southwestern Electric Power Company's planned coal-fired power plant in south Arkansas.
A small company that's pushing a billion-dollar nuclear power plant in Idaho now says it wants to build another one at a different location.
The U.S. Energy Department has bought a geothermal plant north of Casper for an undisclosed amount.
The Department of Energy said Thursday it no longer expects to give $30 million for demonstration work at a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio.
Dad brings in cops after discovering teen's pot plant A teenage girl has learned a lesson about "tough love" after her father called police after discovering a marijuana plant sprouting in her bedroom closet.
U.K. wild seed bank hits 10 percent target - Science- msnbc.comThis should be done, all over the world.
Key new ingredient in climate model refines global predictionsThe results of the experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research are published in the current issue of Biogeosciences.
China villagers storm lead plantHundreds of Chinese villagers have broken into a factory that poisoned more than 600 children, reports say.
Poisonous plant found in supermarket salad A customer purchasing rocket salad at German supermarket Plus was surprised to find a poisonous plant in the package as well, the discount chain confirmed to The Local on Wednesday.
Tyson plant shutdown likely to hurt food bankThe Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma will lose its fifth-largest food donor when the Tyson Foods plant closes in Ponca City next month.
World's Oldest Potted Plant Gets a New Home in Epic Repotting at Kew Gardens in LondonWhat is "believed to be the oldest plotted plant in the world" has been placed "in a new container."
GE Announces Intent to Close Plant in Lexington, Kentucky; 125 Employees AffectedGeneral Electric's Kentucky Glass Plant on Loudon Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky will be closed "by the end of July 2010."
GM plant closing tears at Ohio communityWhen General Motors, the biggest employer in town, laid off 400 workers in December, it was like a boulder falling into a very small pond. April and Rick Allison lost their jobs stamping out doors and other car parts. They plan to leave to find work.
Pay us more or we blow up the plant! A US construction equipment firm has agreed to pay extra compensation to French workers who had threatened to explode gas canisters at their plant.
The plant that can irrigate itself In the deserts of Israel, there is a plant that waters itself. The plant, a type of rhubarb, has specially designed leaves that channel rain water to its roots. It is the only known plant in the world able to self-irrigate.
World's First 'Self-Watering' Plant: Desert RhubarbScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) — Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise e …
Side Effects of MarijuanaMarijuana is the combination of the dried parts of the hemp plant cannabis sativa. The use of marijuana other than its medicinal applications, led to it being a substance prohibited in major parts of the world.
Greenpeace occupies Unterweser nuke plantActivists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace staged a protest on top of the reactor dome of the Unterweser nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on Monday.
The Plant that Pretends to be IllThe plants feigns sickness to stop it being attacked by insect pests known as mining moths, which would otherwise eat its healthy leaves.
A Plant That Thrives When Used as a ToiletNepenthes lowii, a pitcher plant found in Borneo, gets its nutrition from tree shrews, which use the plant as a toilet.
Search crews recover 3 bodies from Slim Jim plant wreckage after NC explosion; victims named - Los Angeles TimesGARNER, N.C. (AP) — Search crews have recovered three bodies from a Slim Jim snack factory a day after an explosion ripped through the plant.
Unifying The Animate And Inanimate Designs Of Nature : Constructal Law...flow systems – from animal locomotion to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time to balance and minimize imperfections. Flows evolve to reduce friction or other forms of resistance, so that they flow more easily with time.
Alot of this started back in 1988. It was a year that there was quite the draught. Farmers had been longing for rain and received very little of it. Jobs became scarce that year too.
BMW laid off 850 workers and scaled down production at its British factory which builds the Mini car, an effort to adjust to weaker demand.
Former Plainview Peanut Manager Speaks Out on Salmonella ScareThis is a news story about a former assistance manager at the peanut factory in Planview Texas. It's a shame he didn't make sure that plant was inspected, even after he left. Waiting for someone to die, and all this trouble was not cool.
Lance (Archway) ready to add workers/Company official has positive newsLance Inc. will hire the second round of former Archway workers by the end of the month, according to Terry Helms, senior director of bakery services of Lance -- with plans to be a full production at the end of the year.
Peanut Plant Knew Product Was Tainted with SalmonellaThe maker of peanut butter linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella shipped tainted product it knew had tested positive for the bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. More Articles
Firefighters see red after pigment fireWOODLAWN - Firefighters quickly put out a blaze at a pigment manufacturing plant early Thursday, but assessing the damage to their equipment - which is now splattered in red - will take much longer.
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