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Military's Odd Cybertruck Order; Jellyfish Swarm Nuke Plant; Steel Plant Explosion | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 232
August 18, 2025
This is the back of the safety helmet worn by a steelworker listening to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's meeting with media at the Clairton Coke Works, a U.S. Steel plant, in Clairton, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.
Fatal Explosion At U.S. Steel's Plant Raises Questions About its Future, Despite Heavy Investment
August 18, 2025
Workers transfer a robot before the opening ceremony for the World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.
Photos of Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games Show How a Human Touch Is Still Needed
August 18, 2025
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In this Aug. 31, 2016 photo, Alejandra Vicuna, of Miami, Fla., takes a selfie in front of the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif. There's a quirky twist in tourism emerging amid the Silicon Valley whirlwind of innovation that has tethered everyone to their smartphones. Those omnipresent devices are now being used to track down technological touchstones so selfies can be taken, videos can be recorded and the experience can be celebrated in a Facebook post, Snapchat or tweet.
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Company Tied to Polygamous Group Used Child Labor
In this Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 file photo, cellerman Franz Graef passes a wall of barrel-aged beers as he pulls a pallet of filled kegs to a walk-in refrigerator at Rhinegeist Brewery in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of downtown Cincinnati. Craft brewers in Ohio now have the freedom to make boozier beers. A new state law went into effect Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, scrapping caps on alcohol content for beer.
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Law Scraps Cap on Beer
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, a worker picks raspberries in a fruit field at Boxford Suffolk Farms, in Suffolk, England. British fruit and vegetable growers rely on seasonal workers from other EU countries to harvest their crops because local workers no longer want the poorly paid, physically demanding jobs that offer little security. EU citizens have the automatic right to work in any member state, and low-skilled east European laborers have helped fuel Britain’s economy since their countries joined the bloc in 2004.
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In this May 2, 2019 photo, El Paso Water worker Hector Sepulveda gives students from the University of Texas-El Paso a tour of a desalination plant in El Paso, Texas. Texas officials are struggling to ensure that they can sate everyone’s thirst as about 1,000 people arrive each day in a state where prolonged drought is a regular occurrence. Some Texas cities are seen as models in planning years in advance to keep supplies flowing to customers. El Paso, which has about 700,000 people living in a desert region that gets only 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain annually, receives international groups wanting to learn more about innovative facilities like the largest inland desalination plant in the United States.
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Texas Struggles to Keep Pace as Thirst for Water Intensifies
About 1,000 people arrive in Texas each day, drawn by jobs, but the state's water infrastructure is a concern.
June 3, 2019
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ICE Raids Tech Company in TX
The 280 people arrested came from 15 different countries and were employed to refurbish used cellphones.
April 5, 2019
Emergency crews continue to douse what's left of the now-extinguished petrochemical tank fire at Intercontinental Terminals Company on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Deer Park. Fire crews extinguished the blaze at ITC about 3 a.m., Wednesday, almost four days after it started, which caused a plume of black smoke to linger over the Houston area. ITC officials said the cause of the fire is still unknown. EPA on-site coordinator Adam Adams said they have been in Deer Park since Sunday, conducting air monitoring at ground level and in the plume. Biggest concerns are 'volatile organic chemicals' and particulates, Adams said. He added that no hazardous levels have been detected.
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Residents Have Fears
Dangerous fumes are coming from burned-out petrochemical tanks a couple of miles away.
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This file photo shows a water pool attached to Robinson Drilling rig No. 4 in Midland County, Texas. An assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey shows that the Wolfcamp Shale in the Midland region could yield another 20 billion barrels of oil.
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Texas Oil Field Could Yield 20B Barrels
It could be the largest source of shale oil the U.S. Geological Survey has ever assessed.
November 17, 2016
Supply Chain
Food-borne Illness Up in Texas
Officials say an increasing amount of produce that's imported from tropical and subtropical regions — where the parasite that causes the illness is endemic — is likely contributing to the recent outbreaks of cyclosporiasis.
September 2, 2016