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August 4, 2022
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4 Steps to Prevent Injuries at Your Facility
September 23, 2022
Bahia Bakari, the sole survivor of the Yemeni airline that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, arrives at the courtroom, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 in Paris. A French court was expected to issue a verdict Wednesday Sept.22, 2022 in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009, killing 152 people.
Damages Awarded for 2009 Plane Crash
September 14, 2022
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant , built during the Soviet era and one of the 10 biggest in the world, has been engulfed by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in recent weeks, fueling concerns of a nuclear catastrophe.
Last Reactor at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Stopped
September 12, 2022
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Wood Products Company Sued Over California Wildfire
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Toyota Finds Wheel, Airbag Fixes for Recalled EVs
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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
August 4, 2022
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Tennessee Considering $900M Ford Incentive Package
Lawmakers must also approve a new development authority to oversee the site.
October 19, 2021
United Auto Workers President Ray Curry, right, bumps fists with Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO, left, after a presentation on the planned factory to build electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. The plant in Tennessee is to be built near Stanton, Tenn.
Operations
Ford's Plan for New EV Factories Raises Question Over Union Jobs
The carmaker is going to hire 11,000 workers, but just how good will those jobs be?
October 1, 2021
In this April 29, 2015 file photo, a boat travels on the Tennessee River near the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant near Spring City, Tenn. Federal regulators have fined the nation’s largest public utility $145,000 for submitting incomplete and inaccurate information on a backup system at its Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified the Tennessee Valley Authority of the proposed fine regarding the Spring City, Tennessee plant in a Nov. 19, 2019 letter. The utility says it has taken corrective action, adding that the backup configuration was never used.
Operations
Federal Utility Fined $145K for Inaccurate Nuke Plant Info
The utility submitted incomplete and inaccurate information.
December 5, 2019
In this Nov. 6, 2018 file photo, Democratic Senate candidate, former Gov. Phil Bredesen speaks to supporters after he conceded to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in their race for the U.S. Senate in Nashville, Tenn., as his wife Andrea Conte stands next to him. A new business venture by Bredesen takes on global warming by helping companies fund solar panels in communities with dirty-power electric grids. The Democrat plans to introduce Clearloop on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, at a conference headlined by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It's Bredesen's first big public foray since losing a U.S. Senate bid last year.
Operations
Ex-Gov. Launches Energy Firm
Clearloop will enable companies to compensate for their emissions impact by paying to fund new solar panels in communities with the dirtiest electric grids.
October 21, 2019
In this Nov. 27, 2018 file photo, a banner depicting the Chevrolet Cruze model vehicle is displayed at the General Motors' Lordstown plant in Lordstown, OH. It’s looking less likely that General Motors will again make vehicles at the Ohio assembly plant that shut down last winter.
Operations
Hope of Return to Closed GM Plant Fades for Workers
Among the thousands of former Lordstown assembly plant workers now spread across GM factories in seven states, many were hoping GM revive production and rescue their old jobs.
September 27, 2019
In this file photo, workers produce vehicles at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga.
Operations
GOP Rehashes Fight Against VW Union
They're predicting economic harm if workers at Volkswagen's car assembly plant in Chattanooga vote to unionize.
June 7, 2019
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Regulation
Utility Eyes Removal of Coal Ash from TN Plant
A new Tennessee Valley Authority report rules out options at the Allen Fossil Plant that would leave coal ash totaling 3.5 million cubic yards where it is now.
March 28, 2019
Electrolux
Operations
Electrolux Not Required Pay Back State
The appliance maker isn't legally required to repay $100 million in state incentives for its soon-to-be-shuttered Memphis factory.
February 6, 2019
In this June 29, 2000, file photo, Tracy Matlock, left, and David Culpepper, right, move barrels of Jack Daniel's whiskey from one of the warehouses at the famous distillery in Lynchburg, Tenn. Jack Daniel's is turning to state lawmakers to ensure that distillers aren't subject to property tax on whiskey barrels in Tennessee, which the company says it hasn't had to pay since at least the end of Prohibition eight decades ago.
Operations
Jack Daniel's Fights Barrel Tax
The company says it hasn't had to pay this tax since the Prohibition era.
February 27, 2018
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Group Wants Probe of Utility's Jets
A critic called the purchases "the very definition of corruption."
February 14, 2018
This Jan. 25, 2017 file photo shows Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn. State environmental regulators say it shouldn’t cost ratepayers more money or take as long as the nation’s largest public utility has estimated to complete a massive, court-ordered coal ash cleanup at the Tennessee power plant. State officials voiced skepticism over the Tennessee Valley Authority’s 24-year timeline and cost claims in federal court filings and state records. The utility has said it’s taking steps to comply with the court’s cleanup requirement, even as it appeals the order.
Operations
Ash Cleanup Timeline, Rate Hike Overstated
A federal judge ordered the ash excavated and removed, because it's leaking pollutants.
January 2, 2018
Operations
Utility Needs $900M to Move Plant Ash
And the job would take 24 years.
November 17, 2017
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Regulation
Utility: Coal Ash Removal Will Take 24 Years
A judge ordered the cleanup last month, saying the facility's unlined coal ash storage is leaking pollutants into a local river.
September 7, 2017
This Jan. 25, 2017 file photo shows the Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn. A federal judge on Friday, AUG. 4, 2017 ordered the nation’s largest public utility to dig up its coal ash at Tennessee Valley Authority’s Gallatin Fossil Plant and move it to a lined waste site where it doesn’t risk further polluting the Cumberland River.
Safety
Utility Must Remove Power Plant's Coal Ash
The nation's largest public utility must dig up its coal ash.
August 7, 2017