Mississippi lawmakers on Tuesday quickly approved incentives for a German company that intends to build a high-tech pipe manufacturing plant in the northwestern corner of the state.
A German company will build a $300 million plant in northwestern Mississippi to manufacture stainless steel pipes for the oil and gas industry, Gov. Haley Barbour and a company executive announced Monday.
The largest zinc producer in the United States and an environmental group have settled a federal lawsuit claiming the company polluted the Ohio River.
A southwest Missouri factory that makes paintballs will close early next year, putting 60 people out of work.
A manufacturer specializing in technology to help increase oil and gas production plans to build a $15 million plant in Van Buren, employing about 50 workers by the summer.
Gov. Sonny Perdue says a biofuel demonstration plant will be built in Thomaston early next year.
Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is supporting a Texas company's proposal to build a major plant for turning coal into gasoline.
FirstEnergy Corp. said Thursday it has reached an agreement in principle to sell a Michigan power plant to Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc. after concluding it was no longer a strategic fit.
Consumer products maker Unilever PLC said Thursday it will close a Southern California plant and cut 61 jobs to lower costs.
Investigators are blaming a faulty valve for a propane-fueled blaze at a closed Nebraska manufacturing plant that forced thousands of evacuations.
Texas environmental regulators on Wednesday issued an air-pollution permit for a power plant expansion, the first coal-fired plant to be approved since the Environmental Protection Agency ruled part of the state's permitting process didn't conform to the Clean Air Act.
An explosion at a chemical plant in the Houston area Wednesday shook nearby homes, generated black smoke seen for miles and injured two workers.
A gas line exploded Monday at a technology plant in northern Illinois, sending aloft debris that killed a man at a nearby highway rest area.
Multibillion-dollar clean coal projects in West Virginia, Texas and Alabama are getting $979 million in federal stimulus funding, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday.
The Utah Supreme Court ruled Friday that a company fighting to build a coal-fired power plant in central Utah will have to try to obtain a pollution permit anew.
The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a company fighting to build a coal-fired power plant in central Utah has to obtain a pollution permit all over again.
Canada's second-largest auto parts maker Linamar Corporation says it is closing its Invar Manufacturing plant in eastern Ontario, and cutting 134 jobs.
Writing pen maker Newell Rubbermaid has opened its new ink plant in Manchester.
Harley-Davidson Inc. said Thursday that it is dropping any plans to move some operations to Kentucky after workers at the motorcycle maker's central Pennsylvania plant agreed to a new seven-year contract.
The U.S. Department of Energy and Mississippi Gasification, which has planned a $2 billion energy project in Moss Point, will hold a public meeting on the facility.
Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa is laying off nearly 150 people from a western Pennsylvania plant.
A newly reopened Niagara Falls manufacturing plant will use hydropower to make products for the solar industry.
The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.
Imperial Sugar Co. said Friday it has entered a three-way joint venture to build a cane sugar refinery next to its existing factory in Gramercy, La.
A tentative labor agreement distributed Friday to workers at Harley-Davidson's plant in south-central Pennsylvania makes it appear likely that the motorcycle maker will keep its operations there, instead of leaving the state to cut costs.
Some happy endangered species news this week. A California plant thought to be extinct in the wild was recently upgraded to "endangered" after being accidentally uncovered by construction workers.
WEST BRIDGEWATER — Writing new legislation to temporarily halt all construction of fossil-fuel power plants in Massachusetts is the next step for the Regional Task Force on the Brockton Power Plant.
Petunias and potatoes may actualy be carnivorus plants according to scientists. Botanists now contend that "carnivorous behavior" may be much more prevelant in plants than previously thought. Some plants in fact jocky for a higher position on the food chain than animals.
A teenage girl has learned a lesson about "tough love" after her father called police after discovering a marijuana plant sprouting in her bedroom closet.
This should be done, all over the world.
The results of the experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research are published in the current issue of Biogeosciences.
Hundreds of Chinese villagers have broken into a factory that poisoned more than 600 children, reports say.
A customer purchasing rocket salad at German supermarket Plus was surprised to find a poisonous plant in the package as well, the discount chain confirmed to The Local on Wednesday.
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma will lose its fifth-largest food donor when the Tyson Foods plant closes in Ponca City next month.
What is "believed to be the oldest plotted plant in the world" has been placed "in a new container."
General Electric's Kentucky Glass Plant on Loudon Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky will be closed "by the end of July 2010."
When General Motors, the biggest employer in town, laid off 400 workers in December, it was like a boulder falling into a very small pond. April and Rick Allison lost their jobs stamping out doors and other car parts. They plan to leave to find work.
A US construction equipment firm has agreed to pay extra compensation to French workers who had threatened to explode gas canisters at their plant.
In the deserts of Israel, there is a plant that waters itself. The plant, a type of rhubarb, has specially designed leaves that channel rain water to its roots. It is the only known plant in the world able to self-irrigate.
ScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) — Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise e …
Marijuana is the combination of the dried parts of the hemp plant cannabis sativa. The use of marijuana other than its medicinal applications, led to it being a substance prohibited in major parts of the world.
Activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace staged a protest on top of the reactor dome of the Unterweser nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on Monday.
The plants feigns sickness to stop it being attacked by insect pests known as mining moths, which would otherwise eat its healthy leaves.
Nepenthes lowii, a pitcher plant found in Borneo, gets its nutrition from tree shrews, which use the plant as a toilet.
GARNER, N.C. (AP) — Search crews have recovered three bodies from a Slim Jim snack factory a day after an explosion ripped through the plant.
...flow systems – from animal locomotion to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time to balance and minimize imperfections. Flows evolve to reduce friction or other forms of resistance, so that they flow more easily with time.
Alot of this started back in 1988. It was a year that there was quite the draught. Farmers had been longing for rain and received very little of it. Jobs became scarce that year too.
BMW laid off 850 workers and scaled down production at its British factory which builds the Mini car, an effort to adjust to weaker demand.
This is a news story about a former assistance manager at the peanut factory in Planview Texas. It's a shame he didn't make sure that plant was inspected, even after he left. Waiting for someone to die, and all this trouble was not cool.