The News Review:
- Study: FPL boosts health risks in Brevard
- Bosch to reduce work force as autos slide
- Volkswagen Group of America Announces Start of Construction for …
- Prison for nuke engineer who took software to Iran
- Flint’s biogas plant coming at good time as biofuel is popular …
- Toyota plant on hold indefinitely
Study: FPL boosts health risks in Brevard
Florida Today FL
County officials this week released the final draft of the power plant study by Environmental Health & Engineering Inc. Brevard County Commission spent just over $1 million in the past four years studying the impact of the FPL and Reliant Energy plants in Port St. The type of fine soot pollution they emit has been linked to higher risks of heart and lung ailments.
Bosch to reduce work force as autos slide
Greenville News SC
The German conglomerate did the same thing at its 2100-worker plant in Charleston earlier this month. Becky MacDonald a spokeswoman at Bosch’s North American headquarters in Farmington Hills Mich. said Wednesday she didn’t have any information about how many jobs her company aims to cut out of the South Carolina plants. “Our plan at this point is to offer the voluntary severance program and then we’re going to look at what our customer demand is and go forward from there” she said. At the BMW plant in Greer meanwhile Friday could be the last day of work for up to 733 contract workers.
Volkswagen Group of America Announces Start of Construction for …
MarketWatch
announced today that construction is set to begin on the paint facility forits Chattanooga plant. The company also announced that Walbridge has beenselected as the general contractor for the $30 million facility and willoversee construction for one of the three primary plant buildings. This $30million is the first major portion of the company’s $1 billion investment inthe new plant. “The paint facility is one of the more complex aspects of plantconstruction and only a limited number of companies have the expertisenecessary. After receiving strong proposals and finalizing the negotiationswe determined that Walbridge brings the experience necessary to execute thiscritical task” said Frank Fischer CEO-designate for Volkswagen’s Chattanoogaproduction facility. As part of Volkswagen’s commitment to a diverse workforce and supplierbase the extensive bidding process required every bidder to identify that itwould subcontract with at least ten percent minority or women owned businessesand Walbridge’s submission exceeded this target. “We are committed to a local and diverse supplier and employee base and weare pleased that Walbridge shares that commitment” said Fischer.
Prison for nuke engineer who took software to Iran
The Associated Press
District Court Judge Neil Wake ordered that Mohammad Reza Alavi’s two sentences of 15 months each be served at the same time. Alavi a naturalized U.
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Flint’s biogas plant coming at good time as biofuel is popular …
MLive.com MI
Census Bureau show biofuel leading the pack of all renewable energies with Americans using it 52. 6 percent of the time that they power up in an eco-friendly way. And that’s fueling even more speculation that a new biogas plant in Flint could transform the area’s economy creating a new industry to replace its struggling automotive and manufacturing roots.
Toyota plant on hold indefinitely
Jackson Clarion Ledger MS
Haley Barbour said Monday. The company has sunk $300 million into the project. The state has $200 million invested in the plant and local governments have $35 million invested. Jeffrey Liker a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Michigan said “The market is so unstable that they (Toyota) have given up predicting when they’ll start production. “There are too many variables in the economy. The plant is about 90 percent completed and will be finished said Lacy Luckett spokeswoman for Toyota Manufacturing Mississippi. But the company will delay equipping the facility and starting production indefinitely she said.