Michael Virtanen

Associated Press
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Spartan Emergency Response Breaks Ground on $20 Million Facility Expansion
August 14, 2025
Main entrance to the Commscope Corporate Center.
Amphenol to Acquire Connectivity, Cable Solutions Business from CommScope for $10.5B
August 11, 2025
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Details of T1's Solar Vision Emerge After Bailing on $2.6B U.S. Battery Factory
August 15, 2025
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's 'Countdown to the Closing Bell,' May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb.
Warren Buffett's Company Reveals New Investment in Nucor
August 15, 2025
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In a Sept. 8, 2009, file photo, Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon speaks during the opening of a compressed natural gas filling station in Oklahoma City.
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 file photo, employees work at the new SodaStream factory built deep in Israel's Negev Desert next to the city of Rahat, Israel. The layoffs of hundreds of workers following the closure of Israeli drinks maker SodaStream’s West Bank factory has even some Palestinians questioning the wisdom of the anti-Israel boycott movement. The fundamental contradiction: While Palestinians support the international outcry against the occupation of the West Bank, businesses attached to Israel’s far richer economy nonetheless offer much-needed jobs.
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SodaStream Layoffs Expose Israel Boycott Conundrum
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Olympus to Pay $646M+ to End U.S. Probes
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In this June 9, 2010 file photo, a worker uses a suction hose to remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill, in Belle Terre, La. The Trump administration has halted an independent scientific study of offshore oil inspections by the federal safety agency created after the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine was told to cease review of the inspection program conducted by the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Established following the massive BP spill, the bureau was assigned the role of improving offshore safety inspections and federal oversight.
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White House Stops Study of Offshore Oil Inspections
The study was created after the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
December 22, 2017
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, right, talks with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., left, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. outside the coal-burning Longview Power Plant in Maidsville, W.Va., Thursday, July 6, 2017.
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Perry: Coal Plants Key to Country's Future
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested that energy supply will spark demand.
July 7, 2017
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Low Incomes Plague Resource-Rich State
It has historically been one of the poorest states, the per capita personal income is nearly $11,000 below the national average.
December 14, 2016
In this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, a mechanized shovel loads coal from an 80-feet thick seam into a haul truck at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek mine near Decker, Mont. Coal from the mine is shipped to power plants for generating electricity. President-elect Donald Trump's vow to revive coal country is met with measured hope in Appalachia and even out West, where mines stand to gain the most.
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Coal Revival Plan Met with Measured Hope
Wearing the miner's telltale blue pants with reflective strips on the legs, Roger Prater would be heading underground that night, had he not been laid off for 20 months.
November 21, 2016
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Nuclear Plant Shutdown Caused by Bird Poop?
In a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last month, the New Orleans-based company said the automatic reactor shutdown was apparently from bird excrement that caused an electric arc between wires on a feeder line at a transmission tower.
March 4, 2016