Katy Daigle

Associated Press

The 2026 AI-Powered Financial Analysis Handbook

The 2026 AI-Powered Financial Analysis Handbook

October 1, 2026

GSK Commits $800M to Expand Pennsylvania Manufacturing Facility

October 12, 2026

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Is the Gig Economy Coming for Manufacturing?

October 7, 2026

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Trump Administration is Suspending Microsoft from Green Card Program

October 9, 2026

12 Manufacturing KPIs With Formulas and Examples

12 Manufacturing KPIs With Formulas and Examples

There are dozens of KPIs to choose from, but a shop tracking all of them is really tracking none of them.

October 1, 2026

Morning smog envelops the skyline in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollutants are killing at least 9 million people and costing the world $4.6 trillion a year, a toll exceeding that of wars, smoking, hunger or natural disasters. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015, about 9 million, could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure.

Pollution Deadlier Than War

Pollution is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world.

October 20, 2017

In this Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, file photo, Indian women use bare hands to pick reusable pieces from heaps of used coal discarded by a carbon factory in Gauhati, India. The world’s biggest coal users - China, the United States and India - have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions.

Coal Surges in China, U.S., India

Production through May is up by at least 121 million tons, or 6 percent, for the three countries compared to the same period last year.

June 26, 2017

In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, a passenger airliner flies past steam and white smoke emitted from a coal-fired power plant in Beijing. Led by cutbacks in China and India, construction of new coal-fired power plants is falling worldwide, improving chances climate goals can be met despite earlier pessimism, three environmental groups said Wednesday, March 22, 2017.

Climate Improving as Coal Declines

China, the biggest greenhouse gas emitter, had said that its coal use would rise until 2030. But later data showed the peak passed in 2013 and consumption is falling.

March 22, 2017

Hindu priests offer prayers to Varuna, the Hindu god of rain as they pray for rains standing in the waters at the Osman Sagar Lake on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India.The seasonal monsoon, which hits the region between June and September, delivers more than 70 percent of India's annual rainfall. Its arrival is eagerly awaited by hundreds of millions of subsistence farmers across the country, and delays can ruin crops or exacerbate drought.In an effort to better understand and predict South Asia's seasonal monsoon, British scientists are getting ready to release robots into the Bay of Bengal in a study of how ocean conditions might affect rainfall patterns.

Robots to Swim in Bay of Bengal in Monsoon Study

Torpedo-shaped robots are programmed to navigate up and down to a depth of 3,280 feet, measuring the water salinity, temperature and current and transmitting the data to a satellite.

June 14, 2016

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Water Dispute Halts Bottling at Coke Plant

The plant is still being used for storage and other operations, and could be re-opened "should there be a change in demand and volume".

February 12, 2016