Drew Costley

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Toto Expands U.S. Toilet Production, Leans Heavily on Automation to Make Luxury Loos
August 22, 2025
Apache attack helicopter launching missiles.
Lockheed Martin Awarded $720 Million Contract for Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles, Hellfire Production
August 22, 2025
L3Harris Technologies Chair and CEO Christopher E. Kubasik speaks at the opening of the 94,000-square-foot satellite integration and test facility.
L3Harris Expands Florida Facility to Support America’s Golden Dome
August 22, 2025
Bosch Rexroth
Bosch Rexroth Breaks Ground on Pennsylvania Expansion
August 22, 2025
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In this photo made through a windshield, the sensors and lights are seen at the west bound toll gate of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cranberry Township, Pa., on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year as the agency fully converted to all-electronic tolling. Turnpike records show the millions of motorists who don’t use E-ZPass have a nearly 1 in 2 chance of riding without paying under the “toll-by-plate” license plate reader system.
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Turnpike's Switch to Digital Tolls Led to $104M Going Uncollected
President Joe Biden speaks during a tour of the Flatirons campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, in Arvanda, Colo.
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Biden, CEOs Meet on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Smoke rises from a cargo ship capsized in the St. Simons Island, Georgia, sound, Sept. 8, 2019.
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Officer's Error Blamed in Shipwreck
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In this 2022 image provided by PSE Healthy Energy, a gas stove is tested for benzene in California.
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Study: Cancer-Causing Gas Leaking from CA Stoves, Pipes
Stoves are leaking benzene.
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A phone loads the Federal Emergency Management Agency application with the background of an image of a fire on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in San Diego. FEMA is releasing the largest update to its mobile application in a decade, at the beginning of a hurricane season that experts predict will be above average and a wildfire season that's on par with recent years' big burns.
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FEMA Releases Largest Update to its Mobile App in a Decade
The update makes the app more like social media.
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Ashley Williams Watt walks near a wellhead and flowline at her ranch, Friday, July 9, 2021, near Crane, Texas. The wells on Watt's property seem to be unplugging themselves. Some are leaking dangerous chemicals into the ground, which are seeping into her cattle's drinking water. And she doesn't know how long it's been going on.
Regulation
Interior Department Approves $1B to Clean Up Abandoned Wells
States will have to apply for funding set aside for well cleanup.
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According to a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, researchers who study the environment and public health say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by recent reductions in emissions from vehicles.
Safety
Vehicle Emission Declines Decreased Deaths, Study Finds
The economic benefits of the reduction in emissions totaled $270 billion.
December 14, 2021
A truck drives past pump jacks operating at the Inglewood Oil Field, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Los Angeles.
Regulation
Los Angeles County Votes to Phase Out Oil and Gas Drilling
The field produced 2.5 million to 3.1 million barrels of oil a year over the past decade.
September 16, 2021